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Peer reviewedO'Brien, Claire – Great Plains Quarterly, 1996
Describes the cooperative and egalitarian race relations in Nicodemus, Kansas--a town founded by former slaves in 1877--and the town's "boom" period in the 1880s. The white leaders who found common cause with their black counterparts were not abolitionists or social agitators, but common settlers who demonstrated that different choices…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black History, Boomtowns, Community Characteristics
