SONNY SCROGGINS
KANSAS FEVER COMMITTEE Press Release October 17, 2008 TO: All Media Outlets Subject: Annual Grant U. Cushinberry Birthday Party From: Sonny Scroggins, Kansas Fever Committee "The Lord told me to take care of my people, meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I do what he told me." Topeka, KS ...………………........Friday October 24, 2008 @ 5:00 p.m, Cushinberry Park. The Kansas Fever Committee is celebrating the 87th birthday of the late Grant U. Cushinberry, an Exoduster descendant. The birthday party will be held in Cushinberry Park under the Grant Cushinberry Tree. Birthday Cake will be served to mark the occasion. A site-seeing tour of Cushinberry Park will be led by Sonny Scroggins at 5:45pm. After urban renewal, most, if not all of the Black Landmarks in Topeka were destroyed. The Park was named for Grant by the Kansas Fever Committee in the 80's. The Committed formed in 1976 during the American Bicentennial Celebration and founded by 15 men and ...