Photo w/added text: Between 400 and 500 (maybe more) (mostly) casually dressed people sit in a colonnaded structure with a wood ceiling & roof. They are awaiting the beginning of an event, Good Trouble Lives On, organized by the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition and Indivisible Kansas City. It is a diverse group, and the fact that they have gathered here in the "bandstand" of Kansas City's Swope Park is significant. Until at least 1954 (when the park's swimming pool and golf course were desegregated by court order), there was only one part of the park that blacks were allowed to use, and it wasn't here. It was an area known as "Watermelon Hill" (where Shelter House #5 was built between 1940 & 1942. Information on the park's segregated history: https://aahtkc.org/swope-park-shelter-5 — — Kansas City, Missouri 17 July 2025 Text added to the photograph reads: "Good Trouble Lives On" and provides the URLs for the event hosts: https://www.movpc.org/ https://www.indivisiblekansascity.org/

Good Trouble Lives On
Bandstand in Swope Park
#KansasCity, #Missouri
17 July 2025
15 Individual Speakers
Three musical ensembles
400-500 Attendees ready to make #GoodTrouble and celebrate the life and legacy of John Lewis.
Organized by #MissouriVoterProtectionCoalition & #IndivisibleKansasCity