Wide-open town : Kansas City in the Pendergast era / Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe, and John Herron, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Diane Mutti, editor.

Roe, Jason, editor.

Herron, John P., 1968- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kansas City (Kan.)--History--20th century.

Kansas City (Kan.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Politics And Progress In Kansas City's "Golden Age"

1 The Other Tom's Town: Thomas T. Crittenden Jr., Black Disfranchisement, and the Limits of Liberalism in Kansas City p. 11 / John W. McKerley

2 Big Deal in Little Tammany: Kansas City, the Pendergast Machine, and the Liberal Transformation of the Democratic Party p. 32 / Jeffrey L. Pasley

3 J. C. Nichols and Neighborhood Infrastructure: The Foundations of American Suburbia p. 57 / Sara Stevens

4 "A Magnificent Tower of Strength": The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City p. 76 / Jaclyn Miller

5 Our Time to Shine: The 1928 Republican National Convention and Kansas City's Rising Profile p. 96 / Dustin Gann

Part 2 Breaking Barriers In A Segregated City

6 Making Meat: Race, Labor, and the Kansas City Stockyards p. 119 / John Herron

7 The Bitterest Battle: The Effort to Unionize the Donnelly Garment Company p. 139 / Kyle Anthony

8 Morally and Legally Entitled: Women's Political Activism in Kansas City p. 157 / K. David Hanzlick

9 Collaborative Confrontation in the "Persistent Protest": Lucile Bluford and the Kansas City Call, 1939-1942 p. 178 / Henrietta Rix Wood

10 "As Good as Money Could Buy": Kansas City's Black Public Hospital p. 196 / Jason Roe

11 Kansas City's Guadalupe Center and the Mexican Immigrant Community p. 216 / Valerie M. Mendoza

Part 3 Culture At An American Crossroads

12 "The Event of the Season": Race, Charity, and Jazz in 1920s Kansas City p. 239 / Marc Rice

13 Radio Pioneers: The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks p. 257 / Chuck Haddix

14 Thomas Hart Benton and Kansas City's "Golden Age" p. 275 / Henry Adams

15 From Proscenium to Inferno: The Interwar Transformation of Female Impersonation in Kansas City p. 291 / Stuart Hinds

16 Kansas City's Liberty Memorial: Remembering Then and Now p. 307 / Keith Eggener.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780700627073

0700627073

Publisher Number:

40028717481

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