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• The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier

  Escapes From Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations, 1840-1865

  Morgans, James Patrick

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  The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• John Brown

  His Fight for Freedom

  Hendrix, John, 1976-

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  John H. Brown was an American abolitionist leader. Brown felt that speeches, sermons, petitions, and moral persuasion were ineffective in the cause for abolishing slavery in the United States. An intensely religious man, Brown believed he was raised…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buffalo Soldiers

  Flanagan, Alice K.

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  Buffalo soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the American Civil War. In 1866, six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were created after Congress passed the Army Organization Act.

• Cathy Williams

  From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

  Tucker, Phillip Thomas, 1953-

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  Cathay Williams was an African-American soldier who enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. She was the first Black woman to enlist, and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army posing as a man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Journey to a Promised Land

  a Story of the Exodusters

  Lassieur, Allison,

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  Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of black people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town

  Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement

  LaFaye, A.,

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  Nicodemus the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War

• No Small Potatoes

  Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

  Bolden, Tonya,

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  Junius George Groves was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known as the "Potato King of the World" by 1902, Groves optimized potato growth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gordon Parks

  No Excuses

  Parr, Ann

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  Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks born in Fort Scott was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

  Challenging School Segregation in the Supreme Court

  Miller, Jake, 1969-

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  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Langston Hughes

  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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  At age six, Langston Hughes' mother tried to enroll him in the Harrison Street School near their home in Topeka. She was told that all African American children attended Washington School, considerably farther away. Langston’s mother argued for his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection

  Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955,

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  Charlie Parker Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas, at 852 Freeman Avenue

• George Washington Carver

  Rau, Dana Meachen, 1971-

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  Around the age of 13 George moved to Fort Scott, Kansas, attending school while supporting himself doing laundry at a local hotel. While living in Olathe, Carver became acquainted with ex-slaves Ben and Lucy Seymour. There he attended school, worked…Read moreRead more of this annotation