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1. $1 Million Makes a Big Difference $1 Million Makes a Big Difference August 15, 2007 The Black Archives of Mid-America will have a new home at a former park maintenance building at 17th Street and Woodland Avenue. The building already houses the Full Employment Council, but needs structural...
2. A New Home for Black Archives A New Home for Black Archives January 3, 2011 The newly renovated Parks and Recreation building, the former Parade Park Maintenance Building at 1722 E. 17th Terrace in the 18th and Vine district, has been completed for the home of the Black Archives...
3. Archives Show Migration, Growth of KC Jewish Community Archives Show Migration, Growth of KC Jewish Community May 2, 2008 The Jewish Community Archives of Greater Kansas City will display a special exhibit starting May 11, 2008, at the Jewish Community Campus. "The archives will present two cases showing Jewish history in...
4. Avid Collector Donated His Archives Avid Collector Donated His Archives June 15, 2006 Obituary or death tribute for Gaylord V. Marr, former UMKC professor who donated his sound recordings to what became the Marr Sound Archives located on the UMKC campus. He died June 13, 2006 and was 82...
5. BA1 Lewis Clymer Collection BA1 Lewis Clymer Collection 1910-1980 The Lewis Clymer collection contains information regarding Lewis Clymer’s tenure as the first African American judge to serve on the Jackson County circuit court. Appointed on February 9, 1970 he served...
6. Biography of Gaylord Marr (1923-2006), Educator and Sound Recording Collector Biography of Gaylord Marr (1923-2006), Educator and Sound Recording Collector 2009;
7. Biography of Horace M. Peterson III (1945-1992), Historian and Archivist Biography of Horace M. Peterson III (1945-1992), Historian and Archivist 1999
8. Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America File contains brochures, newspaper articles, one issue of The Archives Griot (June 17 & 18, 1995), and information about Horace Peterson, founder of the Black Archives.
9. Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America File contains a two-page paper entitled "The Objectives of the Black Archives of Mid America." It is hand dated April 8, 1975.
10. Black Archives of Mid-America Oral History Collection Finding Aid Black Archives of Mid-America Oral History Collection Finding Aid 1975-1976 The collection is comprised of 97 audiocassettes containing interviews of 56 people, largely from Kansas City's African American community. Subjects interviewed primarily include political, business, religious,...
11. Black Archives Oral History Project Black Archives Oral History Project ca1970s File contains a variety of items concerning the Black Oral History Project which was funded by a grant from the Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations. Both the Kansas City Public Library and...
12. By Coincidence, Exhibit on Flu Pandemic Nears By Coincidence, Exhibit on Flu Pandemic Nears May 1, 2009 The National Archives staff are preparing their exhibit on the 1918 flu pandemic to go on display May 23 through January 23, 2009. Many believe that the "Spanish flu" actually sprang out of Kansas, and...
13. Center Cornerstone Reveals Nothing But Memories Center Cornerstone Reveals Nothing But Memories May 28, 2010 The Jewish Community Archives of Kansas City recently held an event to remove the cornerstone from the old Jewish Community Center (JCC) building at 8201 Holmes Street. JCC occupied the building from 1961-1986....
14. Community Archives Wants Your Stuff Community Archives Wants Your Stuff August 13, 2010 The Jewish Community Archives of Greater Kansas City is housed at The Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City. Its new executive director, Judy Parelman, has put out a call for contributions...
15. Documenting Struggle and Resilience Documenting Struggle and Resilience Summer 2012 Article on the Federal Writer's Project records housed in the Special Collections at Wichita State University Libraries. The project operated in Kansas from 1935 until 1942, hiring men and women on relief...
16. Drawings of Jerome Fedeli Drawings of Jerome Fedeli August 2008 Nineteenth-century Italian artist Jerome Fedeli moved to Kansas City in 1881. Fedeli was responsible for the decoration of many public buildings and private residences in Kansas City and other ares. Some...
17. From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Kansas City, Missouri's Airline, TWA's "Around From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Kansas City, Missouri's Airline, TWA's "Around the World Service" July 2008 Article provides a concise history of TWA, founded July 13, 1925, as Western Air Express (WAE). Transcontinental and Western Air relocated its headquarters from New York to Kansas City in 1931. Western...
18. From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City July 1, 2006 Description of the Ilus Winfield Davis papers in the Western Manuscript Collection. Article also examines the events and significance of Davis' term in office.
19. Grand Opening for Black Archives Grand Opening for Black Archives June 12, 2012 The Black Archives of Mid-America reopened on June 16, 2012 at it's new location at 1722 E. 17th Terrace, in the 18th and Vine District. "The archives shut down in 2006, effectively sealing its collections...
20. Ground Broken for Black Archives Ground Broken for Black Archives December 5, 2007 Ground was broken on December 4, 2007, for the new home of the Black Archives of Mid-America. "About $4.6 million in city funds is being used to renovate a former park maintenance building at Parade Park...