We will explore the history of this midwest city parent coming up, the sinking of the steamboat, one of the many to sink on the dangerous waters of the Missouri River. It sank within minutes. 150 passengers on board were terrified and no one died. But they lost all the freights , goods and cargoes belongings. Third 132 years until the until we dug it up. Nationalter, visit the world war i museum and memorial and see a collection of posters involved in the comments in the conflict. True socialere the media of the day. Really what they meant to the various countries. With thein our look mayor, james. Isphysically, keep it 480,000 people spread across the 318 square miles, about 1460 per square mile. 30 smart when you get down to it. Roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. ,e have tremendous sports teams variety, music, and barbecue. One thing i can tell you is all cities have similar problems. We have issues to deal with with crime. Too many guns on the street, gunfire once, we have to do it that by educating kids. If we have fewer options and then we feel hopeless. Easy access to guns. We had all the things other cities had. Panthers, Civil Rights Movement, drug culture the mtv at face, everything was here all at one time. One thing i learned about kansas city is pretended to be softer on all those issues than others. Renatas fast and we can together to put those out and move forward. We learned how to get along with each other but we still remained in my mind and opinion, to segregated. We have to do more to bring people together across color barriers. We are working on it seriously. Growing up in a time and in the city where there was a lot of conflict and watching how the city dealt with at conflict in a way that kept together without falling apart and moving forward. Our caper Cable Partners worked with the city cspan. Aurus when we traveled the world war i museum and memorial showcases one of the largest collections of world war world. E learn more about kansas city all weekend here on American History tv. The Baseball Museum in kansas city, missouri. Here, we document the story of lack baseball in america in general and the professionally negro league specifically. Thisnly difference in ballpark is you will need heroes. The first thing you see is the field. Legends hearld of it as you can see, in my baseball diamond that houses 10 or 12 life sized sculptures. The significance of those cast and positioned as if they were playing a game is they represent 10 of the first group of players to be inducted in the National Baseball hall of fame. That is how allstar teams are chosen pair looking in his the late great john buck oneil. The only one of our staffers not in the International Hall of fame. My believe is he should be, but in this capacity, the cofounder of the Baseball Museum, managing this great allstar team, so our guests come in and through chicken wire and see an incredible display and we hope that invokes the desire that i cant wait to get out there and walk amongst the statues. Wethe Baseball Museum, segregate you from the field. We want our visitors to remotely experience what segregation was like. In the case of great athletes, knowing full well they could make the leaks, so close to it and yet so far from it. You can see the field but cannot get to it. The only way you are allowed to take the field, you have to earn that right. Learning that story. By the time you bear witness to everything they endorsed just to play baseball in this country, the very last thing that happens is now you can. Let me introduce you to ruth foster, a genius. Lace ineeting that took ymca, the building still stands right around the corner from where the museum currently operates. It is contingent of eight independent blackball team owners to form the First Successful organized baseball league. The team would go on to operate amazingly for 40 years from 1920 until 1960. Jack robinson breaks the baseball color barrier but 13 years after he breaks baseballss color barrier, there are still operating with a relatively good deal of success. Because it took Major League Baseball 12 years before every team had at least one black baseball player. Without question, the greatest baseball mind this sport has ever seen and virtually no one knows anything about it even though he is rightfully in the National Baseball hall of fame. The romantict in nature of the heroic and courageous courageous athletes who overcame a verse root adversity to play the game they love, Major League Baseball was a thriving country. E in this the impact it had in this was probably greater than any other during the time in the Africanamerican Community. Welcome to the hotel, a prime example. Here in the historic jazz district. It was not a travesty to have to stay at that hotel. If you are black and visited kansas city, it is it one of the few places a lepers and have to stay in a hotel and it is by far the most majestic of their hotels or motels that are here. On any given day and might see on these chairs, they are at time the fastest man in the world, jesse owens. Oh hampton. Surrounded by members of the john bucky monarchs, oneil was managing at that time, and he said on the bench and served as honorary coach. Beautiful lean of throwing out the first pitch at her allstar game. The legendary jazz musician had his own semipro snap baseball team. So do louis armstrong. All the jazz musicians wanted to be Baseball Players and all the Baseball Players wanted to be jazz musicians. It was only fitting they should come here but you had the best of both worlds. Jazz and baseball. Kansas city was jumping. A jazz musician could get a gig in kansas city where he could becauselse in the world all the nightclubs had music, clubs galore here, so this place was wide open. Baseball and jazz intersected. An intrinsic mixture of jazz and baseball made it one of the most one of the best anywhere in the world. Here we had the irony of young black soldiers dying the city fighting the same in another country that we were asked to accept here. National pastime. The sentiment was fitting. If they could die fighting for beir country, they ought to able to play baseball in this country. That led to Jackie Robinson being handpicked from the great kansas city monarchs. The end of the 45 season contract to play in the dodgers organization. On april 15, 19 47, he would make the monumental walk on the as a member of the brooklyn dodgers for changing baseball and this country. There is no question that the breaking of the color barrier is one of the most significant events in American History. The museum makes the bold assertion that robinsons breaking of the color barrier was not just a part of the Civil Rights Movement. That was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1947. More notedbefore the civil rights occurrences. It is before brown v. Board of education and before rosa parks refusal to move to the back of the bus. As my dear friend buck oneil would poetically say, dr. Martin was a sophomore when robinson signed the contract. President truman would not integrate military until after jackie. So this is what started the ball of social progress in our country. It is bittersweet. Bitter because i am not sure the Africanamerican Community was aware of what was losing when we lost the negro leagues. It had been greatly impactful helping to create the dynamics of thriving black culture. When we lost the negro leagues, we lost a lot of that. Segregation mandated ownership here with integration, we did lose that. The degree of ownership that was prevalent during that era of i dont know if we would see that level of ownership again. I hope that we lost a lot. The soul of our country and also the integration of the sport was triggered in our society and a broader fashion. It was good for the soul of the country and moved us in ways that socially i do not think we had fathomed was possible. It was devastating economically. We finally make our way to the field where we are greeted by a uniform display and incredible lifesize broad sculptures of negro league greats anchored on the mound by lee roy page. Few if any ever did better than the legendary lee roy page. Who at the negro leagues teach us is very simple. And believeto dream in yourself, you could do or be anything you want to be. These athletes dreams to play baseball. They had no idea they were making history. They did not care about making history. Wanted to play ball. The passion, perseverance, determination, and courage they demonstrated would not only change the sport. It changed the country for the better. All weekend, American History tv is featuring kansas city, missouri. Visitedity tour staff sites showcasing its history. First professionals films began a studio where he making cartoons. It went bankrupt in 1923. Learn more all weekend here on American History tv. Posters in world war i with a true social media the day. Radio and theyr were used by all the belligerent countries in the war to impress their ideas upon the passerby and make them do things the government wanted them to do. Regard posters as propaganda but a lot of them were used for the for exit they were featuring in them hall in world war i memorial, showing a variety of posters for many of the Different Countries that produced them during the war. They were not only incredible artworks, and many Famous Artists produced these for the end of the work, but they were also representing countries, ideas of the countries, and they represented really what the were meant to the various countries that produced the posters. Poster. E is a french the french used not so much patriotic themes, but a lot in the posters. In this one, we see the child and theld by its mother picture of the lost father up above. The mother is consoling the child. It is getting people to give because the war effort the countries did not have a big pot of money sitting around and waiting to fight a war. They had to raise money. The french were conscious of using this kind of appeal to the people. That,uded it because of showing how children were used in the advertising of the they cannd also that represent many aspects of society that they were showing in the poster. When americans got into the war they created an agency to produce information that could be sent out to the public. With a committee on public information, in charge of having posters produced for the war effortinformation,. Americans, when they started producing posters especially for fundraising, they use a lot of the symbols that they represented america. In this poster for a second liberty loan, you see the statue of liberty. You see the american flight and the waves and waves of america soldiers going off to fight. The main symbol of inns this time was uncle sam. Though uncle sam had been a symbol of the United States since the war of 1812, it really came to the forefront representing the american war effort. At a lot of the american posters, a lot of the images are in multiples. You see the soldiers marching in the airplanes that are flying. Especially airplanes because when americans went to fight, we did not have airplanes really here and we used british and french and italians airplanes. Artistic license could be taken in producing the posters. Colorful ande more more action oriented, they tended to get more information out to the people. The next poster on exhibit that we see is a recruiting poster for the United States marines. It is pretty basic. We wanted them to join us. It represented the marines as the fighting force that would lead the american effort during the war. 1917, this was equated back to the spirit of 1776, wealth when the american was ation began, and this very important aspect of advertising and images used on but theyer were prewar dusted them off and got them back to use with the beginning of the american effort in world war i. Probably my favorite poster in exhibition is a very futuristic poster. It not only has an incredible image of this machine that would end the war, a real dream that machines could win a war and not have to use the human effort, but the interesting thing about this poster besides incredible french, showing this machine going across and killing all the german soldiers, running in panic before it, is that it was not really produced by the government. If not for a government effort, this was by far a periodical article written about the idea of having machines so this advertised the sale of the periodical. In its function and production, it is right different from the other posters on exhibit here. This is a u. S. Recruiting poster from the war. It is one of the most interesting images to me because it shows various allies of the United States and their navy and how they really want the americans to join in with them. The poster is called altogether. Sailor, aapanese french sailor, and american sailor holding his ubiquitous course, and the french and british sailor, russian and italian. It is very different in that it represented all of the allies ae french and british sailor, russian and italian. The americans were fighting in the war with. During world war i, the japanese with the United States, australia, new zealand, great written in france, and one of their main efforts during the war involved the navy. They acted as escorts for the new zealand and australian in the middleight east and on the western front. They were the Escort Service for them. That is part of the history of world war i that a lot of people do not know about. Japanese visitors we had come here to the museum, it is always interesting to them to see that history and it is represented throughout the museum. A major role on the american homefront in aiding keep all getting people to save weight and take their products to be and to actually help the environment and the war , order now and get ahead thoughgame because products were not necessarily rationed, they were in short supply and coal was one of these. At that time, the coal was. Elivered by horses it is interesting the number of posters that features horses because horses were a major form for the United States in world war i even though cars and trucks were in use, horses played a major role on the homefront and the battlefront. The poster is interesting is reallye artwork expressive and shows posters not only advertising works of media but also works of art. Of the few posters we have in the Museum Collection is a german poster that is again a fundraising poster asking people to give to the war effort. It is featuring the german soldier representative of the iron germany at the time to get folks to give money to the war effort. Problem with the german posters is they have not survive over. He years since world war i that is one area in the museum, even though we have a large collection, that we are actively collecting still, the german posters and posters from russia and also balkans and areas like that. Our collection is organic and we like to represent that in the special exhibition. As part of the memorial social media efforts, we were featuring thisof the posters in exhibition. Public interaction with the exhibition. We asked our visitors in the social media outlet to vote on have anhe posters to seen in the exhibition. One of the posters was voted on by a nice lady who lives in kansas city and she herself was a veteran in world war ii. Thatoted for the poster featured the horse. Help save the horses and horses were of course a major aspect of the war effort and really were not treated very well. Wanted it in the exhibition because her father had in in world war i and she told her family stories about how she had worked on them. Basically, that was the vote that pushed it over and we included this poster even though it is a fairly small poster in relation to the other posters in the exhibition. It also gave a human feeling to it the posters represented in world war i. This exhibit gives us the whole munition one type of used in the war was not necessarily one that was tired or one dropped from an air lane. It was one presented to the get theirreally involvement in the war effort. Is the takeaway out like for people to have, that they enjoy what they are seeing and werealso take that these very important objects of the time and they really teach us the lessons of world war i. All weekend long, american is enjoying our Cable Partners to showcase kansas city, missouri. Cspan. Orgre, visit cities tour. We continue with our look at the history of kansas city. The political machine boss of kansas city really in control 21939. 29 19. 5 the political machine got its ,tart with the older brother who came to kansas city in the started establishing this machine in the first war of kansas city, and the industrial west bottoms down in the river. There was an irish community, after an american community, it was very diverse. A lot of workingclass people. He had saloons and he had, he went basically precinct to precinct holding a machine based on favorite. Civil get healthy jobs in exchange for votes, helping people through giving them loans, you do not have to get a formal tank loan and jim would loan the money settling gambling debts, illegal activities such as gambling and prostitution and so forth. He was getting older and his health was failing. Brother got started around 1900s. He was elected and in charge of streets in the early years of the 1900s. He was really in the position to take a for the machine by the time jim died in 1911. Hashe legacy of the family been beat up and twisted and turned so many times over the years. Today, people do not understand who he was and what he did, both good and bad. What a lot of people do not his rathertom and and seven other sib