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An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who migrated to Kansas in the late 1800s.
The Black American Blueprint Collective hosted its first Exodusters Walk/Run and plaque unveiling.
The first Exodusters’ Talent and Awards Show will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday at Highland Park High School, 2424 S.E. California Ave. The event will celebrate Kansas and its rich history of ...
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.
Slavery and the Great Migration are but two of 13 mass movements of black people that changed the nation, according to Schomburg Center historians.
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.
‘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 ...
Moderated by Mr. Lamb, the panelists talk about the art of writing colorful narrative history. Robert Caro's books include [The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York] and three ...
An event Saturday will honor the historical significance of the African-Americans known as Exodusters who migrated to Kansas in the late 1800s.