Kansas African American Frontier Town - Nicodemus National Historic Site
Formerly enslaved African Americans left Kentucky in organized colonies at the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period to experience freedom in Kansas. Nicodemus represents the involvement of 300 African Americans in the westward expansion, homesteading and settlement of the Great Plains. Nicodemus is the oldest and only remaining Black settlements west of the Mississippi River. Five buildings still remain in this quiet town.
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WATCH: Nicodemus, KS | The Black Experience Moving West
Nicodemus National Historic Site remains a living history lesson on black survival in America. Those who settled here showed an uncommon will to grasp freedom against all odds. Freedom from slavery. Freedom from oppression. Freedom to live, work, play, pray, grow, and thrive. It's that uncommon will that we celebrate still.
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WATCH: Build on Faith | Nicodemus National Historic Site
NICODEMUS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE // Settling on the High Plains of Kansas was a tremendous act of faith. It required faith that rain would fall, crops would grow, and animals would survive. For many, their spirituality became a rock upon which they sustained themselves. Watch this film to learn more about Nicodemus and its rich tradition of faith.
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Produced by: David Ehrenberg
Around Kansas - Nicodemus July 18, 2018
Narrator: It was called the Colored Exodus, thousands of African Americans leaving the post civil war south looking for a new route. By the late 1870s, black immigration from the south had reached its peak. Interested in bringing new settlers into the rugged wind-swept Kansas plaint, a white man, W R Hill, traveled throughout the
south, encouraging blacks to choose from new government lands.
By the summer of 1877, actually before the exodus began, 300 Blacks were convinced to move from the south to Graham County, and the new town site of Nicodemus was established.
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Nicodemus National Historic Site, located in Nicodemus, Kansas, United States, preserves, protects and interprets the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War. The town of Nicodemus is symbolic of the pioneer spirit of African Americans who dared to leave the only region they had been familiar with to seek personal freedom and the opportunity to develop their talents and capabilities. The site was named, at least in part, for a legendary African-American slave featured in abolitionist Henry Clay Work's Wake, Nicodemus (1864). It is a mystical story of an old slave died away and buried in a hollow tree who had asked to be awakened on the Day of Jubilee.The historic site contains five buildings:
Township Hall (now home to a temporary visitor center)
African Methodist Episcopal Church
First Baptist Church
St. Francis Hotel
Nicodemus School District #1 Schoolhouse
WATCH: Black Town in Kansas? Poem Explains Epic Story
NICODEMUS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Sunni Patterson shares the story of Nicodemus, Kansas and the freed African Americans who settled there. Violence and Jim Crow Laws in the south motivated five families to move west. Over time, Nicodemus would become part of the larger migration story known as the Exodusters. Today, the ancestors of these five families still live in this town that was founded in 1877. Nicodemus is a National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service. To learn more, please visit:
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WATCH: They Built Their Own Town | Nicodemus, KS
NICODEMUS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
The settlers of Nicodemus laid down brick and mortar, hand crafting a community brimming with new opportunity. A spirit of entrepreneurship, a desire for ownership and enduring faith all crossed paths in Nicodemus, Kansas, leaving a legacy of pride many carry with them today. Nicodemus is a National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service. To learn more, please visit:
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Part I of a short documentary exploring the village of Nicodemus, Kansas, the first and only remaining exoduster town founded by freed black slaves after the Civil War.
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WATCH: Sunni Patterson O Nicodemus Spoken Word Performance
NICODEMUS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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The promise of freedom sustained those who came to Nicodemus, Kansas. “Building life out of rock solid faith,” the “black gem of the frontier” would offer the formerly enslaved a chance to build a home of their own in the United States. Check out this behind the scenes look at poet Sunni Patterson’s spoken word performance of “O Nicodemus.”
Produced by: David Ehrenberg
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