The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.
We house a large collection of manuscripts and artifacts including photographs, personal correspondence, oral histories, and rare books that are available for research and study. Learn more...
Sixty-one men graduate from the Janitor Training School January 10, 1933, which has met every week at the Urban League offices in Kansas City since November in order to bring better wages and more respect to the profession.