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More news from the Trans-Mississippi

From today’s Kansas City Star:

3-day Kansas event to honor black Civil War soldiers

A group that publicizes Kansas history is planning a three-day celebration in Topeka next month to mark the 150th anniversary of the formation of the first unit of black soldiers to go into battle during the Civil War.

The Kansas Fever Committee plans to have events starting August 3. The site will be Cushinberry Park, near the national historic site dedicated to the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board decision in 1954 declaring segregated schools unconstitutional.

The celebration will honor the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers, which formed in 1862 and went into its first battle in Missouri in October 1862.

The full story is here.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 9th, 2012 at 8:57 AM and filed under Public Announcements, The Heritage Business.
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Comments (2) to “More news from the Trans-Mississippi”

  1. Sir wrote:

    It would be nice if the commemorated the other 99.94% (or whatever the actual disproportionate share is) of the troops that they sent off to fight and die as well. Sad.

    Posted on 10-Jul-12 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

  2. Ethan S. Rafuse wrote:

    Or the more than 99 percent who weren’t generals, one might add. Are you denying that the participation of African-Americans as soldiers in the Civil War did not have a particularly profound significance in terms of what the conflict meant for the republic?

    Posted on 12-Jul-12 at 10:41 am | Permalink