The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11:00am
In Person
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 11, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights act...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
4:00pm
In Person
Join us as we commemorate one of the landmark events in the civil rights movement.
Library staff will lead a march around the block carrying signs...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Bingham (1811-1879) - portrayed by actor Robert Gibby Brand - returns for the Library's popular Meet the Past series...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Local historian Joelouis Mattox discusses the history of Prospect Avenue and the life of one of the surrounding community’s leadin...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 28, 2011
1:00pm
In Person
Location: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
100 W. 26th Street
James H. Willbanks, directo...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 11, 2010
1:00pm
In Person
Location: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
100 W. 26th Street
Historian Shawn Faulkner di...