Tracing the development of a black community in the trans-Mississippi West, Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865--1915 is a thorough, insightful examination of an are

Whether slaves or free men, African Americans were generally excluded from military service until Emancipation. Many Americans know the story of the United Stat

Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence--let alone importance--of African Americans in the unfolding of the western

African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 19