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 the town, which today is a National Historic Site.
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Due to a cancelation of a speaker for Feb. 14, Angela Bates, a Kansas Humanities Speaker will present “Children of the Promised Land, the history…