This week we're exploring African American history in Missouri, with a special emphasis on Columbia. Our guests are University of Missouri-Kansas City professor and historian Diane Mutti Burke, and MU doctoral student in history Mary Beth Brown. To learn more, listen to our entire show, or read and listen to portions of our interviews below. Listen to the entire show. As recently as the late 1950s, downtown Columbia looked very different. Here MU doctoral student in history Mary Beth Brown