The Journal
Field to Factory: The Great Migration of Post-civil War American Blacks By Dan
Dillon The Spring 2002 JOURNAL of the
Jackson County Historical Society features Field to Factory: The Great Migration of Post-civil War American
Blacks by By Dan
Dillon. Dillon illustrates the emigration and settling of African-American populations in northern cities like Kansas City, which literally changed the face of Kansas City’s burgeoning metropolis. Dan
Dillon is Associate Director Education and Outreach at Missouri Repertory
Theater. This article is
reprinted with permission from the theatre’s program for Joe Tuenre’s Come
and Gone by August Wilson. For
more information about Kansas City’s Missouri repertory Theatre, including
the 2002-2003 season schedule, please visit their website at www.MissouriRepertoryTheatre.org
Emigrants waiting for a Mississippi River to take
them north. Photo courtesy
the Library of Congress
Kansas State Historical
Society – Black Newspapers Collection Biography of
Chester Franklin – founder of the Kansas City Call Chicago: Destination
for the Great Migration To
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