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Children of the Promised Land
March 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
ESU Special Collections and Archives invites the community to “Children of the Promised Land,” a program presented by Angela Bates and made possible by Humanities Kansas. Nicodemus, a small, unincorporated town in Graham County, is the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War. Black homesteaders settled the town, which today is a National Historic Site. This pictorial history explores the unique experience of mothers and their children in Nicodemus, some of whom were the first members of their families born free. The event will take place in the Learning Commons of William Allen White Library.