The town of Nicodemus finally gets the recognition is deserves
on May 23rd, 2005 at 2:16 am
The tiny northwestern Kansas town of Nicodemus has been named one of 15 national sites of diversity by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
It is the only site in the Midwest.
Nominations were taken from preservationists and people interested in promoting diversity, said Jeannie McPherson, spokeswoman for the National Trust. The sites were listed in celebration of National Historic Preservation Month.
“They are great examples of heritage,” McPherson said.
Nicodemus, Kansas’ only all-African-American community, is one of the oldest surviving African-American towns west of the Mississippi.
It was settled in 1877 by 300 black Kentuckians who fled racial discrimination and poverty after the Civil War…more
Related link: The story behind black towns
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