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The Kansas African American Museum

601 N Water St, Wichita, Kansas 67203 USA

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The Kansas African American Museum, formerly the venerable Calvary Baptist Church was once the cornerstone of Wichita's vibrant black community. It was built in 1917 when the congregation's leaders worked nights and weekends -separate and apart from their jobs to finish the church. That community featured restaurants, businesses and homes. It hosted jazz artists, Negro League baseball stars, and was the home of America's first African American Academy Award winner and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer among others.This building stands as a monument to human endurance as well as to dignity. The people who worshiped here endured painful racial segregation and fought those conditions with dignity.That's why when Calvary Baptist Church relocated in 1972, Doris Kerr Larkins and others fought to protect this building from urban renewal's wrecking ball. Larkins and many others launched the First National Black Historical Society in 1973. By 1993, the building joined the National Register of Historic Places and in 1997, became the Kansas African American Museum.                                                                               

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Marlayna F.

Whenever I'm in a city I have never visited I like to go to the local museum. It's an even better experience when the city has a museum dedicated to African American / Black History. I thoroughly... Read more

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Travis T.

The museum had plenty of interesting exhibits to look at, especially the Black community of Wichita. However, the inside of the museum felt more like an early 20th-century home than a typical... Read more

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Dianna R.

This place is small, but a lot of great information. There is so much history here and each time we visit, it seems I learn something new every time. An absolute must see in Wichita. Read more

The Kansas African American Museum

601 N Water St
Wichita, Kansas
67203 USA
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