So they left. The so-called Exodusters moved west to Kansas. Some settled in cities like Topeka and Kansas City, and others established towns like Bogue and Nicodemus in the western part of the state.

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 ...

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 ...

Homesteaders and Exodusters intersect in a one-woman show that will commemorate both the Kansas bicentennial and Black History Month. Freelance writer and performer Penny Musco, of Montclair, N.J.,… ...

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 ...

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 name "Exodusters," which was given to those people, originated from "the exodus from Egypt during biblical times," says the website of the Kansas Historical Society. Most Exodusters came to ...

Singleton’s efforts, along with conditions and other inducements, made Kansas the leading destination for many of these migrants (“Exodusters”), although others went to places such as Oklahoma, ...

‘The Dunlap Exodusters - Songs of My Ancestors’ is a benefit concert of negro spirituals. The program will include music, and the stories of black families who came to settle in Dunlap Kansas ...

The feminist Nell Irvin Painter’s “Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction,” originally published in 1977, was one of the first detailed studies of this mass movement by ...

An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who migrated to Kansas in the late 1800s.