Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas Volume 11

by Charlotte Hinger

Book Overview

Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, Nicodemus, Kansas, became a national exemplar of black self-improvement. But Nicodemus also embodied many of the problems facing African Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806190337
• ISBN13: 9780806190334
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"