Celebrate Missouri’s bicentennial all year long.
Bicentennial
Missouri’s role in the early civil rights movement.
Bicentennial project tells the story of Missouri.
A historian digs a little deeper into our bicentennial date to figure out if we’ve actually been celebrating our statehood during the wrong month, and year.
Finally, on December 18, 1818, Congress heard the petition again. This marked the beginning of a long, slow grind toward eventual statehood in 1821. Between 1818 and 1821, the question of Missouri’s status was mired in a contentious debate over slavery.
