It Happened In Kansas

Black History Month

Tue, 02/24/2026 - 08:25

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February is Black History Month, and Kansas has much Black History to celebrate and much racism to dislike. Kansas Territory, created in 1854, became a contest for control between free-state and slave-state interests. Freestate settlers from New England and the Midwest opposed slavery and fought ...

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