This Summer’s ‘Big Read’ will be a ‘Mini Read’, as many of
us take advantage of our beautiful weather! We will study
an article from the Missouri Historical Society Gateway Mag-
azine by Robert Moore, Jr., Antebellum St. Louis. It is an
interesting look at the 1850 -1860 census that tells us how
folks of color lived before the Civil War. Mr. Moore was the
historian for the Gateway Arch for 30 years. Now retired, he
is a senior lecturer at Washington University.  The PDF is
available here. Discussion will be held from 6:30 -7:30 p.m.
on Tuesday, June 27 via this Zoom link.

Reproduced by permission from the Missouri Historical Society. Robert
J. Moore Jr., “Antebellum St. Louis: The Census and People of Color,”
Gateway Magazine 42, no. 2 (Fall 2022).