Discovering Black Heroes

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2015, 1:00 PM | NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM & MEMORIAL, KANSAS CITY, MO

Held in conjunction with Wayne Miner Post 149 of The American Legion, the event is an opportunity for the community to assist the National World War I Museum in identifying photographs of black soldiers who served in World War I. People are welcome to bring/share photos of family members who served in the Great War. The Black Archives of Mid-America will host the event and showcase items from its collection, which also features opportunities for veterans to sign up with Heartland Honor Flight as well as information from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Free to the public. 

Adrienne Landry Dunavin is a member of the Kansas WWI Centennial Commemoration Committee and is the primary administrator of KansasWW1.org. She worked at the KU Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies as their Outreach Coordinator from 2010-2016. During that time she served on the KU WWI Centennial Commemoration Working Group. She continues to volunteer as a representative for CREES and KU WWI on this blog.