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Nicodemus, Kansas was settled by African Americans in the 1870s, commemorated in the Nicodemus National Historic Site. Nicodemus is the oldest remaining town settled entirely by African Americans located west of the Mississippi River. Most of the town's founders were formerly enslaved. [ 7] Most Black people in Kansas originally lived in the ...
Belvidere Hollow was a vibrant Black neighborhood in Kansas City, but by 1958 it ceased to exist entirely. Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood, demolished for city park ...
Black leaders impressed the importance of Lincoln’s education upon its students, both as a means of social mobility and to advance the cultural prominence of Kansas City’s Black community as a ...
The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri . Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture, as well as the ...
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ( NLBM) is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the historic 18th & Vine District, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century.
Kansas City Black Restaurant Week runs from Sept. 2-11 and is a chance to support local businesses, check out a Black-owned restaurant you haven’t been to yet and revisit old favorites. See the ...
Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
A year after the federal government seized one of the nation’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperatives to keep it from falling further into disrepair and financial collapse, Kansas City ...