Black History, Nodaway County, Missouri, 1840-1940

Publication

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St. Joseph Museums

The image shows the cover page of a document titled "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Nodaway County, Missouri, A Black History, 1840-1940," compiled by Martha L. Cooper and published in 1986 by the Mid-Continent Public Library in Maryville, Missouri. A quote encourages representing Black individuals truthfully, sourced from the Kansas City Sun, dated January 6, 1923. Illustrated is a map of Missouri, and the document is dedicated to unrecognized Black individuals from Nodaway County, as well as those supporting the project's research, including Ben Birchfield and others. The bottom mentions assistance from students, citing special thanks for word processing.

The image shows the cover page of a document titled "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Nodaway County, Missouri, A Black History, 1840-1940," compiled by Martha L. Cooper and published in 1986 by the Mid-Continent Public Library in Maryville, Missouri. A quote encourages representing Black individuals truthfully, sourced from the Kansas City Sun, dated January 6, 1923. Illustrated is a map of Missouri, and the document is dedicated to unrecognized Black individuals from Nodaway County, as well as those supporting the project's research, including Ben Birchfield and others. The bottom mentions assistance from students, citing special thanks for word processing.

Name/Title

Black History, Nodaway County, Missouri, 1840-1940

Entry/Object ID

L2014.1.7

Description

Black History, Nodaway County, Missouri, 1840-1940. Titled: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Nodaway County, Missouri, A Black History, 1940-1940. Author is white citizen of Nodaway County who researched family histories, census records, and newspaper accounts to detail the black experience in rural Nodaway County and Maryville, Missouri both before and after the Civil War. She give a list of families and their descendants, black community activities, black leaders, voting issues, a 1931 mob who burned a black man accused of murdering a white teacher, black churches, black cemeteries, 240/Photocopied pages/Photographs.

Collection

Black Archives

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photocopy

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Copy, Reprographic

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Slavery, Reconstruction, Civil wars, Emancipation

Search Terms

Black History, Blacks in Nodaway County, Black Cemeteries, Black Churches, Black Leaders, Black Celebrations

Publication Details

Author

Cooper, Martha L.

Place Published

City

Maryville

State/Province

Missouri

Date Published

1986

Call No.

BlackHist CO

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Feb 25, 2014