UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, January 31, 1994
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Co-op remembers Kansas' birthday
By Ashley Schultz
Kansan staff writer
James Shortridge, a professor of geography on sabbatical this semester, had some birthday cake Saturday.
It wasn't his birthday cake — or anyone else's, for that matter. The cake had a sunflower on top, and it was baked in honor of Kansas.
Saturday marked the 133rd anniversary of Kansas' induction as the 34th state in the United States.
The Amazing Grains Society, a workers collective for Amazing Grains Bakery, 901 Mississippi St., celebrated the occasion by baking an organic whole wheat cake. They shared it with customers at the Community Mercantile Co-op, which houses the bakery.
Kansas' road to admission was not an easy one, said Shortridge, who has taught courses on Kansas culture and the Great Plains at the University of Kansas.
Shortridge said that Kansas could have been admitted earlier if not for a period when the Kansas territory was known as "bloody Kansas," as
pro- and anti-slavery forces violently fought for control of the territory.
"In the time prior to its admission, the unofficial feeling in Congress was that the number of free and slave states would be kept in balance," Shortridge said.
It was generally assumed that Nebraska would be a free state and Kansas would be a slave state. According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the status of each state was to be determined by the people within its territory, Shortridge said. The thinking was that lowlands would flood into Nebraska to settle it as a free state and that Missourians would cross into Kansas so that it would enter as a slave state.
But Northerners, particularly Northeasterners, launched a successful effort to put enough free staters in Kansas to turn the tide. It was admitted as a free state Jan. 29, 1861.
Most of the customers who came Community Mercantile Saturday remembered the birthday, said Brenda Frankenfeld, a partner at the bakery and a native Kansan.
"We have a lot of positive, good history here," she said.
Photos by William Alix / KANSAN
Top: Brendy Lately, partner in the Amazing Grains Society, decorates the cake commemorating Kansas' 133rd birthday. Customers at the Community Mercantile Co-op, 901 Mississippi St., were able to enjoy samples of the bakery's whole grain goods Saturday. Above: The flag of the state of Kansas reflects in a mirror at Community Mercantile. Kansas was the 34th state to join the Union.
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