Leon Stapleton, Kansas City's First African American Grocer, Dies at 100

Leon Stapleton, Kansas City's first African American grocer, has died at 100. Stapleton founded Leon's Thriftway in 1968 and built the store into a longtime community institution while supporting jobs, local families and Black entrepreneurship.

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