Queer Places:
2609 Brooklyn Ave, Kansas City, MO 64127
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got its name from a quote from the 19th century Scottish philosopher Thomas
Carlyle. The quote reads, “A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”
W. Dorr Legg credited Guy
Rousseau, an African American school teacher whose real name was Bailey
Whitaker (March 8, 1920 - September, 1978), with finding the quote and
suggesting the name.
Bailey Bowen Whitaker was born in Kansas City, MO. He attended Howard University, Washington, DC. In the 1940s he lived at 2609 Brooklyn, Kansas City, MO.
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