tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6964675941678680587.post2966072827613586858..comments2023-11-03T05:29:25.633-07:00Comments on Wild West History: Nicodemus, Kansas: One of the First Black Western CommunitiesDarla Sue Dollmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295727215740074345noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6964675941678680587.post-84296506952252760392013-04-25T09:27:30.840-07:002013-04-25T09:27:30.840-07:00Sean, please post your blog address so you can sha...Sean, please post your blog address so you can share it with my readers! I have discovered that people who read about the West can never get enough! Lol! <br /><br />I recently moved from Texas and there was a town I drove through often in the Hill Country on my way to visit my grandchildren in Colorado. It was called Coleman, I believe, and I remember one of my neighbors mentioned to me that it was an all-black community that grew into a rather large city. Now that I've studied the history of Nicodemus I'm intrigued about the history of Coleman and want to know more. Funny how that works with history--the more you learn, the more you want to know! <br /><br />Anyway, you mentioned Missouri. I clearly recall seeing a sign in Coleman about how it was started as a black community and I thought it mentioned that it was started after the end of the Civil War. So, if Nicodemus is the last of the black communities in the West, perhaps Coleman isn't considered in that statement because it is in Texas, which was considered part of the South in the 1800s. Now my mind is already working on the next step in research I must do to answer the questions that came to me while writing this post. See what I mean? It's addicting! Darla Sue Dollmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15295727215740074345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6964675941678680587.post-59555703947882607832013-04-25T08:45:13.527-07:002013-04-25T08:45:13.527-07:00Cool article! I used to live in Missouri and many ...Cool article! I used to live in Missouri and many of the black towns and neighborhoods have disappeared. Some died because of integration, while others were bulldozed to be used as something more beneficial for the white community.<br />I blog about the West too, so you just got a new follower!Sean McLachlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09778503397743759469noreply@blogger.com