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The sacking of Osceola was a Kansas Jayhawker initiative on September 23, 1861, to push out pro-slavery Southerners at Osceola, Missouri. It was not authorized by Union military authorities but was the work of an informal group of anti-slavery Kansas "Jayhawkers". [ 2 ]
Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
The pillaging of Osceola by Kansas Jayhawkers and Red Legs is thought to have provided Cogburn's motive for taking part in William Quantrill's infamous sack of Lawrence, Kansas which serves as a biographical background to the story. [18] Osceola is the main theme for Osceola, Missouri, The Burning of 1861, by Richard F. Sunderwirth.
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Police had "insufficient evidence" to raid the offices of a small Kansas newspaper — and seized belongings should be returned immediately, officials said Wednesday.
Front page of the Colored Radical of 1876. Front page of The Negro Star on December 17, 1920, announcing the NAACP's declaration of victory in the Elaine Race Riot cases. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Kansas.
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