Black populism
"The Negro and Populism: A Kansas Case Study" William H. Chafe The Journal of Southern History https://www.jstor.org/stable/2205135?seq=1
Many of these news sources became galvanizing political forces, and helped build black support for the Populism movement in Kansas, which seemed to promise the chance to become established community members, deserving of the protection of the law and welcome to the opportunity of commerce. White populists, however, railed against the wealthy and well-bred upper classes.
"...by 1880 one out of every six persons in greater Topeka and one out of every five persons in greater Kansas City was a Negro." ~15,000 in 1880, 31,000 in 1890 total Topeka population ~2,500 black people in Topeka in 1880.
Black "equality," voting rights, and political activity in Topeka and Kansas at the turn of the century
Topeka in its [black & immigrant] heyday National Negro Business League and Booker T. Washington
Intersectionality
Races, immigration, sexuality, income
Reconstruction amendments
13th amendment - abolished slavery (except for prison) (more on that later) 14th amendment - citizenship and equal protection 15th amendment - men of all races (and potentially owners of property) could vote
Compromise of 1877 "Removed protections for African-Americans in the South..." ....????
Mexican migration in late 1800s
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm365
1945
WWII
1954
Brown v. Board
1950s-1960s
Baby Boom Suburbs Lake Sherwood White Lakes Mall
Nation of Islam and Malcolm X from 500 - 50,000 members
1970s-1980s
Department stores from downtown, to malls, to bankruptcy ex: Toys R Us Pier 1 Imports
Interstate Highways.
American Revolution, 1775- Declaration of Independence, 1776 Peace signed in Paris, -1783 Federalist Papers written & Constitution ratified, 1788 Washington elected, 1789 Jefferson elected, 1800
Louisiana Purchase, 1803 https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/the-louisiana-purchase/
Manifest Destiny, pioneers and cowboys, self-sufficiency
Dodge City 1850s
Cattle drovers
John Brown and the Civil War 1850s
Kansas as a free state
American Taxation, American Slavery 1500s
Settlement Topeka founded in 1850s Cyrus K. Holliday and railroads
Native land.... land acknowledgement
Turn of the century - 1880-1910
Samuel Crumbine
Etta Semple in Ottawa KS, Free-thinkers movement
Temperance
Railroads vs. towns Ghost towns when railroads left
Clara Barton
Post-war
Reconstruction in Kansas?
Nicodemus and the Exodusters
Harlem Renaissance
After the first World War, there was a time of prosperity in the country.
Harlem in New York became a global center of black culture.
Malcolm X arrived in Boston in 1940, at 16 years old.
“I didn’t know the world contained as many Negroes as I saw thronging downtown Roxbury at night, especially on Saturdays,” Malcolm X wrote in his 1964 autobiography, co-authored by Alex Haley. “Neon lights, nightclubs, poolhalls,[cq] bars, the cars they drove! Restaurants made the streets smell-rich, greasy, down-home black cooking. Jukeboxes blared Erskine Hawkins, Duke Ellington, Cootie Williams, dozens of others.”
http://www.baystate-banner.com/archives/stories/2006/02/021606-03.htm
He then went to Harlem and made all sorts of connections.
Langston Hughes in Topeka, Lawrence, and then Harlem Aaron Douglas others
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/langston-hughes/15506
Flu epidemic
World War I