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In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working to keep this language alive.
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Until desegregation, Lincoln High School was the only place in Jackson, Platte, or Clay counties where a Black student could earn a secondary education. In a city where few pieces of Black history remain — outside of jazz and baseball — Lincoln High remains a monument to struggle and triumph.
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Before she even had the right to vote, Lyda Conley went to law school, conducted an armed occupation, and took a lawsuit all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to protect the Wyandot Cemetery from being sold and excavated.