KC's Steptoe Neighborhood, Remembering Gilbert Guerrero




Central Standard show

Summary: You've probably driven through this cute little neighborhood between Westport and the Plaza, with its bungalows with stone porches. But you may not know that this neighborhood used to be called Steptoe — and it's where freed slaves built new lives for themselves. Hear more about this historic area and the project to collect and preserve its oral history. Also: Remembering Latino civil rights leader Gilbert Guerrero. Guests: Joelouis Mattox, local historian Delia Gillis, Professor of History and