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mickey dean

Mickey Dean standing under a street sign in kansas city's jazz district
Posted inKansas City News

Reparations: What Could They Look Like in Kansas City?

Avatar photo by Jazzlyn Johnson November 4, 2021August 31, 2022

When Highway 71 was built as a north/south passageway through central Kansas City, it was marketed as a community benefit. Similar to inner-city highway construction across the country in the 1960s and ’70s, the construction displaced thousands of African Americans. Mickey Dean, one of the founding members of the Kansas City Black United Front, said […]

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