Columbia, Missouri’s first Black History calendar is available.
Category: Black History
Marking history: Freddie Lee Hayes, first Black graduate of Missouri School of Medicine, died
In 1958, Freddie Lee Hayes became the first Black student to earn a four-degree from the Missouri School of Medicine, according to a notice of his Oct. 16, 2021 death in the Columbia Missourian on Nov. 3, 2021.
Sept. 14 Zoom webinar on Negro Leagues
This 7 p.m. Sept. event is free but registration is required. Here’s where you can register. https://shsmo.org/events/2021/african-american-experience-kendrick President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Bob Kendrick will discuss the Negro Leagues, where Black baseball players were restricted to playing until 1947 when Jackie Robinson was signed to play the major leagues. Learn more here: https://www.loc.gov/collections/jackie-robinson-baseball/articles-and-essays/baseball-the-color-line-and-jackie-robinson/1940-to-1946/…
Oct. 11 – Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia
Oct. 11 publication of Historic Movie Theaters of Columbia by Dianna Borsi O’Brien
Digital Black History Resource
History geeks rejoice! Here is a link to a 1988 transcription by Charles O’Dell of a 1901-1909 director of Black households in Boone County. This resource is made available by the Daniel Boone Regional Library as part of its new Missouri Bicentennial Collection. The DBRL’s description: “A unique record of African American history in Boone…
Celebrate CoMo200
Events to mark Columbia Missouri’s bicentennials.
Local Juneteenth, new national holiday
Juneteenth celebration in Columbia, Missouri, now a national holiday.
App for African-American Trail
An app for Columbia’s African-American Heritage Trail is available free. It is on OtoCast. The app has text, audio, photographs and a map to each of the 22 stops on the trail. The trail markers highlight people, places and activities from J.W. Blind Boone’s house and music to a movie theater that doubled as a…
Bicentennial Celebrations
BoCo200 — On Nov. 16, 2020, Boone County will dedicate a monument to mark the 200th anniversary of its founding, according to this Aug. 28, 2020 Columbia Missourian article. A planned July 4th event had to be canceled due to the current pandemic. For more information on Boone County’s bicentennial, check out this BoCo200 website. …
Coronavirus: Lessons from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
If you’re like me, you’re concerned about ongoing coronavirus pandemic. I stay hopeful by looking at history and how we’re all pulling together by not getting together. Thanks CoMo businesses for curbside pick up! So what can we learn from the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed about 150 people in Columbia, which had a population…
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