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History of African Americans in Kansas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

African Americans in Kansas
Total population
178,725[1] (2019)
Regions with significant populations
Wichita[2]
Languages
Midland American English, African-American Vernacular English, African languages
Religion
Black Protestant
Related ethnic groups
African Americans
African Americans in Kansas

There is an African-American community in Kansas, including in Kansas City, Kansas.[3] Nicodemus, Kansas is the oldest surviving town west of the Mississippi River settled solely by African Americans.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was decided in 1954.[4]

As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African Americans were 5.7% of the state's population. They are concentrated in Wyandotte County and Geary County.[5]

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Transcription

History

Kansas was admitted to the United States as a free state in 1861. Some Black slaves were imported to Kansas. Many Black migrants came from the Southern United States as hired laborers while others traveled to Kansas as escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Some moved from the South during the Kansas Exodus in the 1860s. Kansas was not immune from Jim Crow segregation, race riots, white supremacy and violence from racist white people. Newspapers have documented incidents of white people lynching a black man in Fort Scott and white mobs attacking black Americans held in jails in Leavenworth, Topeka, and Kansas City.[6]

In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was decided and desegregated schools nationwide.[4]

Geography

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 Eastern portions of the state because the Underground Railroad had stops there.[8] Kansas City also has a significant Black population.

Media

The Call is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and also is distributed to African-Americans in Kansas City, Kansas.[citation needed]

Politics

The Kansas African American Legislative Caucus is the political caucus of the Kansas Legislature.[citation needed]

Education

Sumner High School was a racially segregated high school in Kansas City, Kansas.[9] The Interstate Literary Association was established in Topeka in 1892. It was a multi-state education organization for African Americans.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kansas Black population, 2010-2022".
  2. ^ John Pilz (2019). Finding Shared Understanding Between African Americans and the Police Through Simulated Experiences. Dorrance. ISBN 9781480986060.
  3. ^ "African American Residents in Kansas - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. ^ a b "Civil Rights Movement History & Timeline, 1954". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  5. ^ KANSAS: 2020 Census
  6. ^ Seeking the Promised Land: African American Migrations to Kansas
  7. ^ "Discover the Kansas Town Settled by Black Homesteaders in the 1870s | National Trust for Historic Preservation". savingplaces.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  8. ^ "African Americans in Kansas - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  9. ^ Sumner High School - Clio - TheClio
  10. ^ Spanos, Brittany (2018-04-26). "Janelle Monáe Frees Herself". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-07-05.

Further reading

  • Buckner, Reginald (1974). A History of Music Education in the Black Community of Kansas City, Kansas, 1905-1954.
  • Kansas State Historical Society, Historic Sites Survey. Historic Preservation in Kansas. Black History Sites, A Beginning Point. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1977.
  • African Americans of Wichita (Images of America).

External links

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