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A People's History of Kansas City

Kansas City's Barbecue King

Published February 9, 2021 at 3:00 AM CST
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Crysta Henthorne
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KCUR 89.3

The story behind the Black entrepreneur in the 1900s who made Kansas City barbecue a national treasure. Before Arthur Bryant and Ollie Gates, there was Henry Perry.

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