Скачать или смотреть Freed slave Hiram Young built his fortune and legacy in Independence - then got forgotten

In the 1900s, the Neck neighborhood was the center of the Black community in Independence, Missouri. But by 1969, the neighborhood had been demolished (https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-01-30/...)  — thanks to urban renewal policies put into place by President Harry S. Truman, who lived nearby. Today, it’s the site of McCoy Park, a vast green space that connects the Harry S. Truman Library to the Independence Square.


This episode of A People's History of Kansas City (https://www.kcur.org/a-peoples-histor...)  was reported and produced by Savannah Hawley-Bates, with editing by Lisa Rodriguez.


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