Kansas City Friday Flashback: Diverse History Of Westport Endures

Old school reflections on Kansas City's 2nd favorite party place back when it was a neighborhood and not a collection of mostly corporate bars. Checkit:

Black, white families, church, businesses shared Westport block in early 1900s

On one block of Westport around 1900, black families lived next to white families, and a church founded by a former slave and his brother stood just down the block from a grocery store in one of the oldest buildings in Kansas City.

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  1. Ah Mary Jo's "The Way We Were" thingy again.

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