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(originally published 8/15/20) When I thought about a post to mark the centennial of the 19th amendment, codifying women’s’ voting rights, I saw the opening I’d been looking for to write about Carrie Westlake Whitney, the first director of Kansas City’s library system. In my admittedly limited research, I found no evidence that Whitney wasContinue reading “Carrie Westlake Whitney: Mother of the Kansas City Library”