| Abstract | Photos and article about Kansas City, its general economy, standards of living, and employment opportunities, and their comparison to socioeconomic conditions for black people or African Americans here. Also photos and descriptions of several prominent black Kansas Citians such as George Gates (of "Gates' & Son's Bar-B-Q"), Edward Skaggs (school board president), Robert Wheeler (school superintendent), Lieutenant Colonel Leroy Swift ("highest ranking Black officer" of the police department), Leon Jordan and Bruce Watkins, Jr. (founders of Freedom, Incorporated), Patricia Skaggs ("the only Black woman county legislator in Missouri"), Lee Swinton ("[t]he city's first Black state senator"), City Councilman Charles Hazley, Missouri state representatives Alan Wheat, Earl Pitts, Phil Curls, and Mary Groves Bland, City Councilman Emanuel Cleaver, Archie Welch ("Co-owner of H & W Storage"), Alex Harris ("president of Minority Contractors Association"), and Carmell Jones ("[f]amed trumpeter"). |
