GKCBHSG Founder’s Day Program Featuring Mr. Lewis Diuguid

On Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 1:00 pm, the Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group will resume fall programming with its Founder’s Day Program to be held at the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO 64110. Each September, we join with other branches across the country in celebrating the founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known by many as the Father of Black History.

The 2025 theme, African Americans and Labor, continues to be explored in this month’s program featuring esteemed veteran journalist and author, Mr. Lewis Diuguid.
Diuguid states, “Contrary to what many believe, European colonizers did not go to Africa to kidnap and enslave just any Black people. In many cases, they were very specific in seeking African artisans and farmers with special skills that could be put to use in the so-called New World. Also, contrary to the commonly held belief that Black doctors and lawyers made up the backbone of the Black middle class, it was actually the Pullman Porters and other Black railway workers who not only constituted the spine of the Black middle class, but also formed the core of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Please join us!