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RACISM IN KANSAS CITY: A SHORT HISTORY
BY G.S. GRIFFIN
FOREWORD BY ALVIN BROOKS
Anti-black racism still infects American society.
African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested, imprisoned, and executed. They are more likely to be turned down for a job or offered a bad home loan than equally qualified whites.
The killing of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, triggered riots. A white terrorist massacred black worshipers in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight black churches were burned in the South in ten days.
Kansas Citians, like so many others across the nation, wonder, "Could it happen here?" The answer lies in this study of Kansas City's darkest moments-slavery, the border war, the Civil War, bombings of black homes, lynchings, the segregation of neighborhoods and schools, the civil rights struggle, the Black Panther movement, the 1968 race riot, assassinations in the 1970s, the infamous Missouri v. Jenkins U.S. Supreme Court case, and the racial inequities that still plague Kansas City today. Threaded throughout Racism in Kansas City are stories of those who fought ardently against racist policies...and won.
Racism in Kansas City, in the end, offers readers a hopeful message: with awareness comes understanding, then a willingness to push for positive social change.
To contact the author for speaking engagements or to purchase bulk orders at a discount rate for your store, group, or organization, please message this page. If you'd like a copy of this book, you'll find one at Prospero's Books, The Green Door Bookstore, Rockhurst University Bookstore, Made in KC, The Raven Bookstore, Willa's Books, Afterword Tavern & Shelves (online), or at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943338027.
Garrett S. Griffin is a political writer, activist, and the author of Racism in Kansas City: A Short History and Why America Needs Socialism: The Argument from Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Other Great Thinkers. See all his writings at gsgriffin.com.
BY G.S. GRIFFIN
FOREWORD BY ALVIN BROOKS
Anti-black racism still infects American society.
African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested, imprisoned, and executed. They are more likely to be turned down for a job or offered a bad home loan than equally qualified whites.
The killing of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, triggered riots. A white terrorist massacred black worshipers in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight black churches were burned in the South in ten days.
Kansas Citians, like so many others across the nation, wonder, "Could it happen here?" The answer lies in this study of Kansas City's darkest moments-slavery, the border war, the Civil War, bombings of black homes, lynchings, the segregation of neighborhoods and schools, the civil rights struggle, the Black Panther movement, the 1968 race riot, assassinations in the 1970s, the infamous Missouri v. Jenkins U.S. Supreme Court case, and the racial inequities that still plague Kansas City today. Threaded throughout Racism in Kansas City are stories of those who fought ardently against racist policies...and won.
Racism in Kansas City, in the end, offers readers a hopeful message: with awareness comes understanding, then a willingness to push for positive social change.
To contact the author for speaking engagements or to purchase bulk orders at a discount rate for your store, group, or organization, please message this page. If you'd like a copy of this book, you'll find one at Prospero's Books, The Green Door Bookstore, Rockhurst University Bookstore, Made in KC, The Raven Bookstore, Willa's Books, Afterword Tavern & Shelves (online), or at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943338027.
Garrett S. Griffin is a political writer, activist, and the author of Racism in Kansas City: A Short History and Why America Needs Socialism: The Argument from Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Other Great Thinkers. See all his writings at gsgriffin.com.
