A rededication of Exoduster Boulevard on the Stormont Vail Events Center grounds is among events set to take place Saturday at that location. An event Saturday will honor the historical significance ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Black American Blueprint Collective hosted its first Exodusters Walk/Run and plaque unveiling. The walk/run took place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the grounds of the Stormont ...
In 1846, Rutherford County slaveholder Robert Weakly published an ad in a Nashville newspaper offering $50 for the return of an enslaved man named Ben Singleton. In the ad, Singleton was described as ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Gordon will join Gayle McMillen on Feb. 22 at University United Methodist Church for a Black History Month concert, "The ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A retired Topeka educator is sharing her musical talents to help bring awareness and support to an important piece of black history in Kansas. ‘The Dunlap Exodusters - Songs of ...
Sanford Clark knew he would have to move west if he and his family were to escape the racism of the South and truly know the meaning of freedom. The Civil War was over, but anyone who thought the ...
The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day hold ...
ST. LOUIS – Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who left the states along the Mississippi River to get land in Kansas and other Western states after Reconstruction. The Homestead Act and ...
ANAC copy 39088014658553 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "A story of former slaves searching for their own promised land after the Civil War. Fleeing the South, and trying to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who came in the late 1800s ...
An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who came in the late 1800s to Kansas, with many staying for a time on what are now the grounds of ...
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