Following a contentious meeting in December 1955, the Kansas City Bar Association voted to admit both African Americans and women as members. This decision made the organization open to all lawyers regardless of gender or race. 

Fifty-five years later, Judge Howard Sachs, who was present at the vote; UMKC Law School professor David Achtenberg, whose father was one of the leaders of this desegregation effort; and community leader and human rights advocate Mamie Hughes, join Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a roundtable discussion of this major moment in local civil rights history.