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African Americans in Kansas

There is an African-American community in Kansas, including in Kansas City, Kansas. Nicodemus, Kansas is the oldest surviving town west of the Mississippi River settled solely by African Americans. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was decided in 1954. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African Americans were 5.7% of the state's population. They are concentrated in Wyandotte County and Geary County.

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See also

• ▸Heraclitus
• ▸Landscape with the Good Samaritan
• ▸Economic history of Africa

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