Events


Missouri Valley Sundays Series Making Meat: Race, Labor & The KC Stockyards


Sunday, April 28, 2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm


Downtown Kansas City Library
14 W 10th St
Kansas City, MO 64105


In a discussion of an essay in his new book, UMKC historian John Herron examines the city?s stockyards industry in the opening decades of the 20th century and explores how the multi- ethnic stockyards workforce gave a young KC a distinctive flavor.