the State Historical Society of Missouri
Robert M. Farnsworth was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
![Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-07/1.%20Edgar%20Snow.jpg?itok=nbWtbU1K "Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]")
Edgar Snow grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on July 17, 1905. After a…
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![Melvin Tolson. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-134556 DLC]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-07/1.%20Melvin%20B.%20Tolson.jpg?itok=ftWIB7B0 "Melvin Tolson. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-134556 DLC]")
Through most of his life, Melvin B. Tolson claimed he was born with the twentieth century…