![]() ![]() During Reconstruction, 16 African Americans served in Congress.African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund recipient Historic Vernon Chapel AME Church was one of the few buildings that was left barely standing. 12, 1996, Congress designated Nicodemus a national historic site.Reconstruction of the district took place in 1922, when around 80 businesses were opened, but by the end of the 1950s, many of them closed due to desegregation. The townsite was designated a national historic landmark in 1976. ![]() Still, of the more than half dozen black settlements that sprang up in Kansas after Reconstruction, Nicodemus is the only one to survive, with a present-day population hovering around 20. Black towns reconstruction Black towns, either mostly or completely African-American incorporated communities with autonomous. ![]()
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