Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities.
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But Nicodemus also embodied many of the problems facing African Americans during this time.
As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, Nicodemus, Kansas, became a national exemplar of black self-improvement.
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities