The Journal
Ignorance Made Arrogant: Kansas City’s Racist Purity Patrols
By Dr. Sherry Lamb Schirmer
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The divisive phenomenon that citizens experienced during the torturous
1860s continued long after the Civil War’s battles were over, however, and
linger today in subtle undertones.
In the 1920s segregationist tactics showed that prejudices ran deep in
mid-America communities, as Dr. Sherry Lamb Schirmer points out in Ignorance
Made Arrogant: Kansas City’s
Racist Purity Patrols, available in the Autumn 2002 JOURNAL of the
Jackson County Historical Society. Dr.
Schirmer is an Associate Professor of History at Avila College in Kansas
City, Missouri. She is author of
A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960, Milestones: A
History of the Kansas Highway Commission and the Department of
Transportation, and At the River’s Bend: An Illustrated History of Kansas
City, Independence, and Jackson County. Dr. Schirmer will be the
guest speaker at the March 12, 2003, Real Kansas City series presentation on
“HER + STORY = HERSTORY: Women in Local History.”
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