ST. LOUIS — A new exhibit highlighting Mill Creek Valley opens Saturday at the Missouri History Museum. Curator Gwendolyn Moore hopes this will eliminate the negative stigma that surrounded the once-thriving Black community.
She and her sister, Malaika Horne Wells, grew up in Mill Creek Valley. Together over the past few years, formed the “Mill Creek: Black Metropolis” exhibit.
“It was a place that we loved,” Moore said. “We lived in the segregated community. We didn’t go outside that community, so we never really faced racism directly.”…