A People's History of Kansas City

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Reclaiming the right to jaywalk

Reclaiming the right to jaywalk17. Feb.27 Min.

Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the country to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full-circle moment, because Kansas City was also the first city to criminalize jaywalking more than a century earlier. Mackenzie Martin reports in the second of our two-part series.