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Inalienable Possessions And Flyin' West: African American Women In The Pioneer West, Justin Hosbey
Inalienable Possessions And Flyin' West: African American Women In The Pioneer West, Justin Hosbey
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Nicodemus, Kansas is one of the few remaining settlements founded by African American former slaves in the post-Civil War period of American history. Designated by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site in 1996, Nicodemus has secured its role as a place deemed important to the history of America. For this project, I worked as an intern for the Nicodemus Historical Society, under the direction of Angela Bates. This local heritage preservation agency manages archival and genealogical records important to Nicodemus descendants, and exhibits several of the community's cultural and material artifacts for the public. I was specifically …