Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...to the tune "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," a blackface minstrel tune composed by New York songwriter Stephen Foster in 1852, just two years prior to the publication of...
Fort Scott newspapers
Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...
Olathe newspaper
Olathe Mirror. "A Dastardly Assault." December 31, 1896. "Mr. Ross is an old citizen of Johnson county, and as the MIRROR goes to press he is lying in a critical...
Leavenworth newspaper
Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...
Lawrence newspaper
Lawrence Daily Journal, reprinted in Leavenworth Times. Untitled. January 24, 1901. "Kansas is again the recipient of columns of advice from other states. Other states should understand that this is...
Horton newspaper
Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...
Topeka newspapers
Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'" TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...
Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...
Emporia newspapers
The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905. NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...
Wichita newspaper
Wichita Daily Eagle. "Burned at the Stake by a Mob." January 17, 1901. "It has got around to Kansas, around to the state the dream of whose people has always...