The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
This time nearly a century ago, Kansas City was approaching what local historian Joelouis Mattox calls the "Gloomy Years" – a nearly...
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
Saturday, May 9, 2015
10:30am
In Person
As a six-year-old child, local artist and gardener Dean Bracy observed what seemed like hundreds of monarch butterflies feeding on a butterfly bush an...
Signature Event
Friday, August 15, 2014
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...
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
Sunday, June 29, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
In partnership with the Westport Center for the Arts we will present a reading of The 3 Ms. This new play features the widows of Martin Luther King,...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 14, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
During decades of official segregation in public schools, all-black Lincoln High was a source of community inspiration, pride, and hope matched onl...
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
Sunday, July 14, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Kansas City was a heavily segregated town. African-Americans were limited even in which city facilities they could use. For ins...