Overview In "A Foundation for Kansas City Jazz" (May 3, 2010), author Lucas Homer analyzes the relationship between jazz music and place within the African American community in Kansas City. Homer authored this paper as an undergraduate student (2007-) in music and American studies at the University of Kansas. This file also contains biographical information on Etta Moten Barnett and Claude Albert Barnett.

Overview Chesterman C. Linley was a University of Kansas alum and lawyer in Kansas. His collection consists of personal scrapbooks chronicling the jazz movement in Kansas City during the 1960s and 1970s.