(originally published 5/2/19) Part I of this story, published last week and this, Part II, were originally a feature in a 2017 book I wrote on the history of the Greenway Fields neighborhood – the neighborhood just west of the Brookside Shops. It looked at the relationships of the neighborhood with two churches back inContinue reading “Faith and Trust Part II: The Case of the Moving Houses”
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April 1968 – The Kansas City “Holy Week” Riots
(originally published 4/11/19) Across the country, it was labeled the “Holy Week Uprising.” Everything happened in those ten days leading up to Easter,. The Kansas City Star’s headline read “Holy Week Riots.” Whether you saw the events as an uprising – an act of resistance – or a riot – an act of violent disturbance,Continue reading “April 1968 – The Kansas City “Holy Week” Riots”
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