Effort to honor a century-old Chinatown in St. Louis advances
It was lost in plain sight: a Chinatown in downtown St. Louis that existed for nearly a century.
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It was lost in plain sight: a Chinatown in downtown St. Louis that existed for nearly a century.
Many notable and early Chinese leaders are buried at Valhalla Cemetery, including many "mayors" of the now-destroyed Chinatown that stood in downtown St. Louis.
The Missouri Historical Society couldn't turn down an offer from a small group of Chinese St. Louisans to better tell its community's history.
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When Alexis Charles Newton set off toward home late one night in July 1988, the 33-year-old Black man couldn’t have known he’d end up recounting the evening in detail to a courtroom later that fall. Sure, he had seen the bands of young white men — with shaved heads, swastika tattoos and combat boots — stomping around Dallas’ Lee Park that summer. But Newton had kept his distance. He had made it home safely every time before, and nothing about that night seemed to suggest a different outcome. Newton grew up nearby, and as a boy, he swam in the public pool at the park. Later, as an ...