Missouri Friends

[smooth=id:35;] Missouri is a state that has made a unique contribution to America’s history and African-American history.  We had the pleasure of meeting Father Moses Berry, founder of the Ozarks African American Heritage Museum in Ash Grove.  We toured the Nathan and Daniel Boone plantations and the George Washington Carver site.  Our wonderful host, Angela da Silva of Lindenwood University and the National Black Tourism Network spoke about other Missourians who rose from slavery to national prominence. We also journeyed to Independence, Missouri to explore some of the history and places were African American contributions have not been forgotten.

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  • Moses Berry

    LEGACY SHOW: Exploring Missouri’s Black History through the Ozarks and beyond

    This broadcast is a favorite legacy show that we produced under our old name Travel'n On and before rebranding as WORLD FOOTPRINTS. Father Moses Berry February marks Black History Month, and in celebration, World Footprints returns to Missouri; a state that has made a unique contribution to America’s history. Ian and Tonya will speak to their father Moses Berry, founder of the Ozarks African American Heritage Museum in Ash Grove.  It has an extensive collection of photographs and artifacts of rural Afro-American life in the surrounding areas, preserved by the Berrys and other families over many years. Fr. Moses Berry is a contributor to An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African American Experience, a ground-breaking collection of essays. He, along with Fr. Alexii Altschul and others founded the annual Afro-American and Ancient Christianity Conferences sponsored by the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black.  He is in demand locally as [...]