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25-583: The American Jazz Museum is located in the 18th and Vine historic district of Kansas City , Missouri . The museum preserves the history of Kansas City jazz music, with exhibits including Charlie Parker , Duke Ellington , Louis Armstrong , Ella Fitzgerald Big Joe Turner , Thelonious Monk , and Etta James . The Blue Room is a jazz club which holds live performances multiple nights each week. The museum runs youth cultural programs, including youth jazz ensembles, lessons, camps, and visual storytelling sessions. The museum opened on September 5, 1997 and shares

50-525: A hub of professional and business activity in the Black community, restored in the early 1980s by the Black Economic Union of Kansas City. Six blocks to the north, the former intersection of 12th Street and Vine is the subject of Leiber & Stoller 's song " Kansas City " in 1952, adapted by Little Willie Littlefield as "Kansas City Lovin ' " and adapted by Little Richard , Wilbert Harrison , and

75-514: A result of black participation in the Gold Rush. The American Freedman was a New York-based paper that served as an outlet to inspire African Americans to use the Reconstruction era as a time for social and political advancement. This newspaper did so by publishing articles that referenced African American mobilization during that era that had not only local support but had gained support from

100-704: A wall that let black people into society. The Roanoke Tribune was founded in 1939 by Fleming Alexander , and recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder is Minnesota's oldest black-owned newspaper and one of the United States' oldest ongoing minority publication, second only to The Jewish World . Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising. They were also victims of their own substantial efforts to eradicate racism and promote civil rights. As of 2002 , about 200 Black newspapers remained. With

125-657: Is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri . It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses . Along with Basin Street in New Orleans , Beale Street in Memphis , 52nd Street in New York City , and Central Avenue in Los Angeles , the 18th and Vine area fostered a new style of jazz. Kansas City jazz

150-455: Is a riff-based and blues-influenced sound developed during jam sessions in the neighborhood's crowded clubs. Many jazz musicians of the 1930s and 1940s lived or got started here, including Charlie Parker . Due to this legacy, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver said 18th and Vine is America's third most recognized street after Broadway and Hollywood Boulevard . In 1991, the national historic district encompassing 35 contributing buildings

175-479: Is part of the museum, directly across 18th Street. The Blue Room is a jazz club based on the design of the Street Hotel's Blue Room that hosted players like Charlie Parker and Bennie Moten during the 1930s. The Blue Room has interactive exhibits, a bar, and hosts live performances multiple evenings every week. Its entrance is directly at the corner of 18th and Vine streets. 18th and Vine 18th and Vine

200-800: The North Star (1847–1860), the National Era , The Aliened American in Cleveland (1853–1855), Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851–1863), the Douglass Monthly (1859–1863), The People's Advocate , founded by John Wesley Cromwell and Travers Benjamin Pinn (1876–1891), and The Christian Recorder (1861–1902). In the 1860s, the newspapers The Elevator and the Pacific Appeal emerged in California as

225-706: The Richmond Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee ; Garth C. Reeves Sr. (1919–2019), publisher emeritus of the Miami Times ; and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier . In the 1940s, the number of newspapers grew from 150 to 250. From 1881 to 1909,

250-536: The National Colored Press Association (American Press Association) operated as a trade association. The National Negro Business League -affiliated National Negro Press Association filled that role from 1909 to 1939. The Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919–1964) was a subscription news agency "with correspondents and stringers in all major centers of black population". In 1940, Sengstacke led African American newspaper publishers in forming

275-482: The Beatles . Vine Street no longer intersects with 12th Street, where a housing project was built over it. The city has since erected a street sign in a park near the housing project to mark the former 12th and Vine. The neighborhood has long suffered epidemic blight, with huge portions being juggled for decades between unproductive owners and their countless colossal visions and broken promises of rehabilitation. It has been

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300-633: The Great Migration from southern states to northern states from 1910 to 1930 and during the Second Great Migration from 1941 to 1970. In the 21st century, papers (like newspapers of all sorts) have shut down, merged, or shrunk in response to the dominance of the Internet in terms of providing free news and information, and providing cheap advertising. Most of the early African American publications, such as Freedom's Journal, were published in

325-516: The North and then distributed, often covertly, to African Americans throughout the country. The newspaper often covered regional, national, and international news. It also addressed the issues of American slavery and The American Colonization Society which involved the repatriation of free blacks back to Africa. Some notable black newspapers of the 19th century were Freedom's Journal (1827–1829), Philip Alexander Bell 's Colored American (1837–1841),

350-784: The building with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum . In March 2024, music historian Dina Bennett became the executive director of the museum. The museum is a Smithsonian Affiliate . It displays the Graphon alto saxophone played by Charlie Parker at the famous January 1953 Massey Hall concert in Toronto with Max Roach , Dizzy Gillespie , Charles Mingus , and Bud Powell . Other exhibits include Benny Goodman 's shoes, Harold Ashby 's saxophone, and Myra Taylor 's dress. Visitors can learn about different styles and rhythms of jazz at multiple listening station exhibits. The historic Gem Theatre

375-490: The comic book antihero The Phantom . Actually a con artist , Taylor promised in 2006 to develop his large Jazz District property into 42 homes plus a community center or museum within the nearby historic city workhouse castle , but was instead convicted of a Ponzi scheme defrauding Black churchgoers of millions of dollars and then federally imprisoned. From 2016 to 2020, the city government, community, and corporate investors have conducted many proposals for rehabilitation of

400-516: The focus of more than $ 30 million of civic investment since the late 1980s, but redevelopment has struggled. In 2001, the Kansas City area manager of Bank of America proposed a $ 46 million redevelopment of 96 acres of blight across the District but canceled in 2005 ahead of the global crash of 2008, selling much of it to KC native millionaire Ephren W. Taylor II who likened his invisible investments to

425-597: The founding of the National Federation of Afro American Women in 1895. It was also one of the first newspapers, along with the National Association Notes , to create journalism career opportunities for Southern black women. Many African American newspapers struggled to keep their circulation going due to the low rate of literacy among African Americans. Many freed African Americans had low incomes and could not afford to purchase subscriptions but shared

450-522: The global community as well. The name The Colored Citizen was used by various newspapers established in the 1860s and later. In 1885, Daniel Rudd formed the Ohio Tribune , said to be the first newspaper "printed by and for Black Americans ", which he later expanded into the American Catholic Tribune , purported to the first Black-owned national newspaper. The Cleveland Gazette

475-466: The historic blight, including a massive $ 150 million project pending a federal investigation into corruption. African American newspapers As African Americans moved to urban centers beginning during the Reconstruction era , virtually every large city with a significant African American population had newspapers directed towards African Americans. These newspapers gained audiences outside African American circles. Demographic changes continued with

500-770: The movie remained on most of the dilapidated buildings until the end of the decade. The 18th and Vine neighborhood includes the Mutual Musicians Foundation , the Gem Theater, the long-time offices of African-American newspaper The Call , the Blue Room jazz club, the American Jazz Museum , the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum , Smaxx Restaurant, a restaurant inside the Juke House and Blues Club, and several apartments and condos. The Historic Lincoln Building serves as

525-496: The press, displaced Black women to the background of a movement they spearheaded. A woman's issue, and a Black woman's issue, was being covered by the press. However, reporting diminished the roles of the women fighting for teacher salary equalization and “diminished the presence of the teachers’ salary equalization fight” in national debates over equality in education. There were many specialized black publications, such as those of Marcus Garvey and John H. Johnson . These men broke

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550-570: The publications with one another. African American newspapers flourished in the major cities, with publishers playing a major role in politics and business affairs. By the 20th century, daily papers appeared in Norfolk , Chicago , Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940) and John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), publishers of the Chicago Defender ; John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929), editor of

575-519: The trade association known in the 21st century as the National Newspaper Publishers Association . During the 1930s and 1940s, the Black southern press both aided and, to an extent, hindered the equal payment movement of Black teachers in the southern United States. Newspaper coverage of the movement served to publicize the cause. However, the way in which the movement was portrayed, and those whose struggles were highlighted in

600-585: Was established in the 1880s and continued for decades. The national Afro-American Press Association was formed in 1890 in Indianapolis, Indiana . In 1894, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded The Woman's Era , the first nationally distributed newspaper published by and for African American women in the United States. The Woman's Era began as the official publication of the National Association of Colored Women , and grew in import and impact with

625-478: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . 18th and Vine is east of Downtown Kansas City and is the metropolitan area's historic center of African American culture. In 1991, the national historic district encompassing 35 contributing buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . In the 1990s, parts of the film Kansas City were filmed there, and façades left from

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