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Nicodemus

This article is incomplete and shouldn't be for a settlement as historically important as Nicodemus. StudierMalMarburg 20:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Feel free to expand this article and Nicodemus National Historic Site. Nationalparks 20:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No Merge

I do not think that this article should be merged with Nicodemus National Historic Site. We are trying to have an article for each and every National Park unit. Nationalparks 16:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this. The only reason I posted the merge in the first place was because the two articles are both stubs and contain nearly identical information. Both need to be expanded to make each unique. StudierMalMarburg 19:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. It seems like there is plenty of information out there on this topic to have two seperate articles. BTW, I have added the proteced area infobox to Nicodemus National Historic Site. --Nebular110 20:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other resources

I will be doing some research on the topic and I will list some sources to consider, I have placed some in the further reading section but just thought I would place them here also:

Shaw, Bill & Daniel Chu. Going home to Nicodemus: The story of an African American frontier town and the pioneers who settled it. Morristown: Silver Burdett Press, 1994.

Shortridge, James R. Peopling the plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995

Athearn, Robert G. In Search Of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas 1879-80. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978

Ravage, John W. Black Frontiers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997.

--Cataldoc (talk) 15:24, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Expanded Article

I have spent some significant time researching Nicodemus and plan to post and expanded article later in March. If anyone has comments or suggestions feel free to contact me.

--Cataldoc (talk) 15:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

- For the format maybe move the background up to the top of the page like the Deadwood, South Dakota page - Did Bleeding Kansas have an effect on the movement of former slaves to Kansas? - I agree with Professor Johnson that a map may be helpful and some pictures but you can always add those later MAHONECI (talk) 20:44, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional sources

Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998)

Legends of America: Legends of Kansas-Nicodemus-A Black Pioneer Town, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/OZ-Nicodemus.html

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:54, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AJC Article on Black homesteaders

Here is part of Atlanta Journal Constitution's Black History Month on In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders which discuss about Nicodemus, Kansas. Rjluna2 (talk) 16:05, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How a Kansas town became one of the nation’s first majority-Black farming communities

Here is the PBS Newshour segment about How a Kansas town became one of the nation’s first majority-Black farming communities. Rjluna2 (talk) 15:31, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

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The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:01, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Last All Black Town in the West

Here is an article from MSN/The Daily Yonder about The Last All Black Town in the West. Rjluna2 (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]