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Black Homesteading on the Great Plains
November 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST
Special thanks to Beth & Kelvin Whited for funding this event!
In cooperation with Humanities Kansas, Humanities Nebraska presents “Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains.”
Join us via Zoom for a conversation with Angela Bates of the Nicodemus Historical Society (Kansas) and Denise Scale, of the Descendants of DeWitty (Nebraska). They will discuss these two thriving communities built by African-American homesteaders.
Angela Bates presents for Humanities Kansas on “Children of the Promised Land,” sharing the story of Nicodemus, the only remaining western town established by African Americans in the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War. She is Executive Director and past president of the Nicodemus Historical Society.
Denise Scales presents for Humanities Nebraska as part of the Descendants of DeWitty (and its president), a 501c3 nonprofit that keeps the memory of the founders of DeWitty, Nebraska alive through research, education, and outreach.
Donna Rae Pearson (moderator) is a museum specialist at the Kansas Historical Society, and previously a Local History Librarian for the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. She is also a speaker for Humanities Kansas, presenting a program on Mapping Inequality.
Special thanks to Beth & Kelvin Whited for funding this event.
Special thanks to Beth & Kelvin Whited for funding this event.