David Condos, Kansas News Service
Hays On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Ponder sat in jail accused of shooting a white railroad worker in this northwest Kansas town.
By sunrise, the three Black men had been dragged from their cell by a mob of white townspeople and hanged from a railroad trestle over the creek that separates the town from Fort Hays, where the men were stationed in the U.S. Army. A Leavenworth newspaper reported that the town “indulged them in a dance in mid-air.”
One hundred and twenty years later in 1989 the county commission gave a 5-mile stretch of road near that bridge a new name drawn from that ugly history: Noose Road.
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Black history feels palpably
now. We’ve been witness to more than 8,000 multi-generational, multi-racial demonstrations for Black lives since this summer. Our nation’s first Black female Vice President now lives in the White House, and the Deep South just sent its first Black U.S. Senator to Congress. We’re in the midst of what
How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi calls a Black Renaissance.
For those of us who think history is made in other times by other people, the Kansas City Black History project aims to set the record straight. Black history is not only
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Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Surging Interest in African American Genealogy
Here Are Resources in Kansas City to Get Started Share this story Published February 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: The Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition holds monthly meetings and members go on yearly road trips of historical significance. Here is the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
in Topeka. (Contributed | Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition)
A family reunion in 2008 first sparked Wayne Reed’s interest in genealogy.
But it was a move in 2013 to Kansas City that gave Reed the resources that fired his resolve to learn more. Reed’s efforts since have produced a family tree with one branch reaching back to 1824.