On March 4, 1928, the Bunion Derby, an 84-day footrace along the 3,422 mile length of the new Route 66 began.
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The groundbreaking St. Louis legal case of Shelley v Kraemer drew the attention of the country as a Black family sued after buying a home where they weren’t allowed to live. The case dated back to 1911, when more than three dozen property owners entered into a restrictive covenant that blocked Blacks and Asians from …
Missouri Representative Isaac Parker grew up in a politically connected family in Ohio. He then moved to St. Joseph as an adult to work as a lawyer. A decade after arriving in western Missouri, he won the Seventh District Congressional seat, which he held for four years. At that time President Ulysses S. Grant appointed …
On March 4, 1928, the Bunion Derby, an 84-day footrace along the 3,422 mile length of the new Route 66 began.
