African American Heritage TrAil

of Kansas City, MO

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Welcome to the African American Heritage Trail of Kansas City, MO. The Trail is “virtual,” as the number and land area of sites along the Trail are too large to walk. However, maps will guide you to neighborhoods and clusters of sites where you can create your own Trail experience.

The African American Heritage Trail of Kansas City, Mo has been driven by community input and will continue to grow in size and scope. Please check back often as we will be adding more sites and people regularly, as the African American History of Kansas City is rich, deep, and significant to growth of the community.

We welcome your feedback, input and stories. Click on the SHARE link to see how you can contribute your time, talent and treasure to the Trail.

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“Learn your history. It’s a wonderful history. SO many wonderful things have happened in the last 100 years. We have come so far. We still have a ways to go, but that’s your job, you and your children and their children. We will get there. I know it.”

— John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil

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The Stonewall Riots began June 28, 1969.

The Windjammer was located at 1822 Main Street
Though we don't have as much info as we'd like, we're spending #pridemonth2020 highlighting current and former #LGBT+ sites within #kansascity.
Thanks to GLAMA at the @umkclibraries, we're featuring Ga

Tools was located at 518 E. 31st Street
Though we don't have as much info as we'd like, we're spending #pridemonth2020 highlighting current and former #LGBT+ sites within #kansascity.
Thanks to GLAMA at the @umkclibraries, we're featuring Gay and L

Bobby Bremer opened the TAPS bar in Kansas City between 1983 and 1985. Like many other gay bars in the area, Taps hosted events and parties for the gay community including drag shows and gay male pageants. The bar burned down in 1993 after it was sol

Celebrating #Juneteenth today by featuring a few sites related to slavery, former slaves, or children of former slaves who shaped #KansasCity. These people and places are all currently listed on the African American Heritage Trail of Kansas City, lin

Pegasus, later known as Club Cabaret was located at 5024 Main Street. | Though we don't have as much info as we'd like, we're spending #pridemonth2020 highlighting current and former #LGBT+ sites within #kansascity.
Thanks to GLAMA, we're featuring

The New Earth Bookstore building still stands at the corner of 39th and Main. Write up copied from Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women’s Bookstores in the United States by Junko Onosaka. #feministhistory Though we don't have as much info as

The Kon Tiki Room in November of 1982. Though we don't have as much info as we'd like, we're spending #pridemonth2020 highlighting current and former #LGBT+ sites within #kansascity.
Thanks to GLAMA at the @umkclibraries, we're featuring Gay and Les

Though we don't have as much info as we'd like, we're spending #pridemonth2020 highlighting current and former #LGBT+ sites within #kansascity.
Thanks to GLAMA at the @umkclibraries, we're featuring Gay and Lesbian bars and businesses that were popu

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