Local historian Chester Owens Jr. will be the guest speaker at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the quarterly meeting of the Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum.
The meeting will be at the Wyandotte County Museum, 631 N. 126th, in the Wyandotte County Park, Bonner Springs. The entrance road is off 126th and State Avenue.
Owens will speak on the history of Sumner High School.
A graduate of Sumner High School, Owens was the first black person elected to the Kansas City, Kansas, City Council. Elected in 1983, he served two terms on the council.
Owens is a graduate of Pittsburg State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He retired in 1998 as president at H.W. Sewing and Co.