Freedom seekers who built their own West — Nicodemus, Langston, Boley, Greenwood.
Nicodemus survives as a National Historic Site; about thirteen of Oklahoma's fifty-plus all-Black towns endure.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Exodusters & the Black Towns — the shape you scrub through changes in 1877 · 1890.
The definitive history of the Black migration west that built Nicodemus and the all-Black towns.
Directly covers African American settlement in the American West from the earliest period through the 20th century, including the Exodusters movement to Kansas, Nicodemus, and the Black towns of Oklahoma.
Though focused on the 20th-century Great Migration, this book directly contextualizes the Exodusters movement as the forerunner of later Black territorial self-determination strategies — useful for situating the 1877-1921 Black West within longer patterns of African American migration.
A Nobel laureate's novel centered on an all-Black Oklahoma town founded by descendants of Exodusters, directly inspired by real towns like Nicodemus, spanning the founding generation into the 20th century.