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2. Exodusters - Wikipedia

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   The black population of Kansas increased by some 26,000 people during the 1870s. [35] Historian Nell Painter further asserts that "the sustained migration of some 9,500 Blacks from Tennessee and Kentucky to Kansas during the decade far exceeded the much publicized migration of 1879, which netted no more than about 4,000 people from Louisiana". [36]

3. African Americans in Kansas - Wikipedia

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   Kansas was admitted to the United States as a free state in 1861. Some Black slaves were imported to Kansas. Many Black migrants came from the Southern United States as hired laborers while others traveled to Kansas as escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Some moved from the South during the Kansas Exodus in the 1860s.

4. Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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   The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]

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6. Need a pay boost for the holidays? These Kansas state jobs ...

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   Across Kansas, the state government has 749 jobs open as of Wednesday. Of all Kansas counties, Shawnee has the most openings with 252. Pawnee County has the second most, with 44 jobs posted, while ...

7. New year, new job? These 5 Kansas government jobs have ... - AOL

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   The start of the new year is a popular time to set fresh goals, and for some that could mean securing a new job. As of November, the unemployment rate in Kansas sat at 2.9% , according to the U.S ...

8. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton - Wikipedia

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   Hickey, Joseph V. "'Pap' Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas", Great Plains Quarterly 11 (winter 1991): 23–36. Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986. Sharp, Jim.

9. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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   1.10 Indiana. 1.11 Kansas. 1.12 Kentucky. 1.13 ... who envisioned so large a number of African-Americans settling in the territory that it would become a Black ...