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LINC Celebrates Black History Month

The Local Investment Commission (LINC) has again produced educational posters and booklets in partnership with The Kansas City Public Library and The Black Archives of Mid-America, with contributions from the The Kansas City Star. The poster set celebrates and supports Black History Month from a local perspective.

Full color booklets and posters will be available the last week of January.

Kansas City leaders highlighted in the 2012 edition are: pastor Samuel W. Bacote, entertainer L.C. "Speedy" Huggins, baseball legend Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige, physician and activist William J. Thompkins, journalist Roy Wilkins, musician Mary Lou Williams, and teacher Josephine Silone Yates.

Learn more, order prints or download the entire Black History Month series at kclinc.org/blackhistory

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