Let's Remember When Kansas City Homes Were Racist

Meh . . . 

Homes are probably still kinda racist now if you were to ask your broke-ass commie nephew . . . But these images speak a more "classic" era of American internment camps . . . Check-it:

The images date back to a federal project in 1940 to clean up property records in Jackson County. And more than 50,000 of these photos still exist.

Now, a new Kansas City Public Library site called KC-1940 is making the collection even more accessible.

“It’s just such a complete vision of what life was like in 1940 in these neighborhoods, on these streets,” said digital history collections librarian Katie Eschbacher, who started creating an inventory of the materials more than a decade ago.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

What did your Kansas City neighborhood look like in 1940? It's now even easier to find out

KC-1940

In 1940, over a period of eight months, more than 58,000 images of Kansas City structures were photographed and assembled as the 1940 Tax Assessment Photograph Collection.