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Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home

by Margie Carr

Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home

Margie Carr’s Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home is the extraordinary, century-old history of one city block whose residents shaped the changing status of Black people in Kansas City and built the social and economic institutions that supported the city’s Black community during the first half of the twentieth century.