Denver Public Library's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, call #: ARL-224.

In the city of Denver, there was a large, vibrant African American community that formed a variety of social, religious, political, and beneficial organizations. One popular group was the American Woodmen's Association. Here members of the children division of the Association pose in Denver around 1920.

Many towns and cities in Kansas had large, successful African American populations. This group of well-heeled young people pose for a snap shot during an outing in the early 1920s.

State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Bismark, North Dakota did not have a large African American population. However there were enough in the town for people to come together and form the Second Baptist Church of Bismarck, shown here ca. 1920.

Some African Americans communities grew from one freedman or woman giving land to establish a church or school. And sometimes groups of African American settlers set out from the South with the express purpose of founding their own town... NEXT