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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton compiled this scrapbook to document the immigration of many Southern blacks to Kansas during the 1870s and 1880s. Singleton is considered the father of the Negro Exodus, or Exoduster movement. The book contains newspaper clippings, handbills, circulars, and posters promoting the immigration and commemorating it. The marginal notes are from an unknown source sometime after 1950. Some notes give directions to continuing sections. The order and numbering of pages and inserts follows the 1950 KSHS microfilm publication. Some renumbering of pages had occurred since that time. Some page numbers on the original may not reflect the present page order.
Creator: Singleton, Benjamin, 1809-1892
Date: 1877-1886
Item Number: 211642
Call Number: CK 326 Si6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211642
Collections - Library
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - Illustrations
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Scrapbook
People - African Americans - Exodusters
People - Notable Kansans - Singleton, Benjamin, 1809-1900
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
Type of Material - Newspapers - Illustrations
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Scrapbooks
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