Scope and Contents The collection contains charred papers salvaged from Juanita Morris’s Fashion R Boutique building located at 9844 West Florissant Road by staff members of the Missouri Historical Society in January 2015. The papers represent the broad effect of the upheaval surrounding the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. and the subsequent civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and nearby municipalities. Due to the fragility of the items, they are housed in special boxes which allow...

Scope and Contents The collection contains a four-page (typed) reminiscence entitled "Memoirs of the Hippy Era" written by Leeman Hackworth about his experiences with the Ferguson, Missouri, police department in the late 1960s and 1970s. The memoir focuses on teen activities centered around Wabash Park during the hippy/anti-war era, circa 1969. Hackworth remembers teens and pre-teens using marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs in the area. Some runaways explained that Ferguson’s Wabash Park was...