African American Resources for Kansas

Introduction
A list of resources for African American research of ancestors who lived in Kansas.

Research Strategy
Kansas African American Genealogy

History
The few slaves that may have been in Kansas before the Civil War may be listed in the United States Census Slave Schedules.

Kansas was not highly populated before the Civil War but after the War movement towards the West brought all groups including the African American.


 * African Americans in Kansas
 * Exodusters : black migration to Kansas after reconstruction
 * Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 : a social history
 * First Presbyterian Church records, Pleasanton, Kansas, 1869-1900
 * Black towns and profit : promotion and development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915
 * Narratives of African Americans in Kansas, 1870-1992 : beyond the Exodust movement

Cemeteries

 * African American Cemeteries Online

Oral Histories

 * Lawrence Douglas County, Kansas African American Oral History Interviews

Military Records
Many of those involved in the Civil War moved west after the War.


 * Researching African American Soldiers of the Civil War
 * Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War
 * Military history of African Americans
 * Nicodemus, Kansas: the History of America’s Black Towns

School Records

 * The History of our Public Schools Wyandotte County, Kansas 1844-2014
 * African Americans in Kansas
 * African American Teachers in Kansas

Archives and Libraries

 * The Kansas Genealogical Society &amp; Online Library
 * Wichita Public Library Genealogy Center


 * Kansas City Public Library Genealogy Link
 * Mid-Content Public Library-Midwest Genealogy Center