In the shadow of downtown, at Kansas City’s Historic Union Cemetery, evidence suggests a mass desecration of graves there that, 100 years later, few know about and no one has yet to reconcile. The ugly details — of children hoisting skulls on sticks, of bodies of untold numbers of Black and white paupers being dumped three or more to a grave, of earth-moving machines plowing up their bones like fieldstones — are not told on tours. They’re buried in history, in old newspaper clippings and long-forgotten court cases. They’re found in the testimonies of workers who discovered piles of bones while building Warwick Trafficway and McGee Trafficway. “The skeletons were uncovered by dynamite blasts in the quarry,” one construction worker said in 1927. “We found them in the dirt and, of course, they were not complete. I remember one blast unearthed four skulls and a number of other bones.” Read our deep dive into the cemetery’s horrific history at the link in our bio. #KansasCity #KCMO ...