African American Resources for Wisconsin

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A list of resources for African American research of ancestors who lived in Wisconsin.

Background
The few slaves that may have been in Wisconsin before the Civil War may be listed in the United States Census Slave Schedules.

Wisconsin was not highly populated before the Civil War but after the War movement brought all groups including the African American.


 * Black settlers in rural Wisconsin
 * Exodusters : black migration to Kansas after reconstruction
 * Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 : a social history
 * First Presbyterian Church records, Pleasanton, Kansas, 1869-1900
 * Black towns and profit : promotion and development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915
 * Narratives of African Americans in Kansas, 1870-1992 : beyond the Exodust movement

Cemeteries

 * African American Cemeteries Online

Civil War African Americans
Many of those involved in the Civil War moved after the War.


 * Researching African American Soldiers of the Civil War
 * Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War
 * Military history of African Americans
 * Nicodemus, Kansas: the History of America’s Black Towns

Genealogical Research
Kansas African American Genealogy

Genealogical Library and Society

 * Wisconsin Black Historical Society
 * Black History in Wisconsin by Wisconsin Historical Society
 * African-American-Genealogy-Society-Of-Milwaukee
 * Wisconsin Societies

Libraries

 * Kansas City Public Library Genealogy Link
 * Wisconsin Archives and Libraries

Oral Histories

 * [http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/oralhistory/ Lawrence Douglas County, Kansas

African American Oral History Interviews]

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 * Category:African Americans