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And they have mixed reports about how included they feel in the community. Some believe non-Latinos are uncomfortable with demographic changes. The growing Latino community has led to conversations about diversity and acceptance in the increasingly suburban city about 30 miles south of Kansas City.

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National Hispanic Heritage Month came into being inwhen President Ronald Reagan expanded the week-long celebration introduced by President Lyndon Johnson 20 years earlier.

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Students from the Armourdale community of Kansas City, Kan. Armourdale, which was one of the first Hispanic communities to form in Kansas City, Kan. Bordered by the Kansas River and Interstate 70, Armourdale is just one of a of communities along the Missouri-Kansas state line that has a rich Latino history dating as far back as the mids. These neighborhoods have deep roots in the history of the Kansas City area and their experiences have shaped how they interact today.

As we take a closer look at the history of these state line communities in KCUR's Beyond Our Borders projectwe spoke to a of members of the Latino community. Many are longtime residents and experts in Hispanic history in the Kansas City area. Some are more recent arrivals, but they provide perspectives on how the state line has affected their communities in the past years.

Hispanic migration to the Kansas City area dates as far back as the s, when the Santa Fe Trail opened up trade from Mexico.

But the first major wave of immigration came with the establishment of railro in Kansas City, Kan. Around the turn of the century, the Kansas City metropolitan area was a hub for railroad expansion. Dozens of rail lines crisscrossed downtown Kansas City, Mo. During this time, Mexican workers recruited by the railro established compact communities around the rail yards in Rosedale, Argentine, and the Armourdale neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kan.

He grew up in the Armourdale community of Kansas City, Kan. They were transported here in boxcars from Mexico. Gene Chavez is a local curator and historian for the Kansas Humanities Council. He says that in addition to railroad work, many opportunities existed at industrial sites and meat packing plants. During this time period, from the turn of the century untilthe existence of a state line dividing the metropolitan area had little impact on where immigrants chose to settle.

They went where there was work. The state line became a more important border almost half a century later, when nature brought devastation to the area.

In July offloodwaters rushed down the Kansas River and inundated the Kaw River valley and the Missouri River basin, resulting in great change in the communities bordering the state line. Armourdale and the West Bottoms were under waterdisplacing entire Latino communities.

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Chavez says the migration across the state line had a great effect on education. Those families that moved to communities on the Kansas side faced a public school system that segregated black and Hispanic students from white students.

The case was different in Missouri. He says the Latino communities in Missouri have a longer history of cultural centers that were well equipped to deal with immigrant needs.

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When the flood brought a new wave of Hispanics to the area, there were already schools in place to accommodate them. In the past 20 years, turmoil in Central America and Mexico has brought a new wave of immigration to the Kansas City area, revitalizing the historic Hispanic communities. As descendants of the older Hispanic populations move away from the cities' urban cores, these new immigrants are revitalizing parts of the cities had been in decline. Search Query Show Search.

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Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. This is an aerial view of the Armourdale neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan. Armourdale's proximity to the railro made it one of the first Hispanic communities to form in the Kansas City area in the late s. The railyards in Kansas City, Mo. Floodwaters inundated West Bottoms in the summer ofdisplacing entire Hispanic communities.