William Allen White Library, Emporia State University

Join ESU Special Collections and Archives for the opening of the exhibit A Journey Toward Freedom: Black Americans and the Great Migration. The Great Migration was the largest domestic movement in American history. During the century following the Civil War, over six million Black Americans left the southern United States to move north and west.…

ESU Special Collections and Archives invites the campus and community to “Free Did Not Mean Welcome,” a program presented by Dr. Carmaletta Williams and made possible by Humanities Kansas. This…

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…