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The Nicodemus Cyclone Archive

  • Nicodemus, Kansas
  • 18871888

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The Western Cyclone, Nicodemus Enterprise, and Nicodemus Cyclone were Republican, four-page, weeklies that served Nicodemus, KS. Nicodemus was one of the earliest and longest surviving African American communities in the Midwest. It was incorporated in 1876 by a group of newly freed African Americans from the South and a White land speculator. The new town experienced a period of drought and poverty, but, by the 1880s, there were almost 500 African American and White citizens living in the town alongside diverse African American and White-owned businesses.

Archive Info

  • 178
  • Nicodemus, Kansas
  • 18871888

Source Information

The Nicodemus Cyclone, 1887–1888 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: March 8, 2018

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Archive Info

  • 178
  • Nicodemus, Kansas
  • 18871888

Source Information

The Nicodemus Cyclone, 1887–1888 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: March 8, 2018