Last updated: January 8, 2025
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Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (Lawrence, Kansas)
African American Civil Rights Network
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) is one of several dozen Congressionally designated national heritage areas across the United States. Included within the FFNHA are museums, historical societies, libraries, and other cultural-heritage sites in counties across the Kansas-Missouri border. The heritage area has online tours of regional African American history and supports other African-American history initiatives.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area tells the history and generates awareness of the many struggles for freedom in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Approximately 200 historic sites across 41 counties in Kansas and Missouri comprise the heritage area and its stories include the settlement of the western frontier, the Missouri-Kansas Border War, U.S. Civil War, and more recent struggles like the modern Civil Rights Movement. The heritage area includes several online African American history tours in the region in addition to African American history exhibits, programming, field trips, and other efforts.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area became a part of the African American Civil Rights Network in 2024.
The African American Civil Rights Network recognizes the African American Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the sacrifices made by those who fought against discrimination and segregation. Created by the African American Civil Rights Act of 2017, and coordinated by the National Park Service, the Network tells the stories of the people, places, and events of the U.S. African American Civil Rights Movement through a collection of public and private resources to include properties, facilities, and programs.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) is one of several dozen Congressionally designated national heritage areas across the United States. Included within the FFNHA are museums, historical societies, libraries, and other cultural-heritage sites in counties across the Kansas-Missouri border. The heritage area has online tours of regional African American history and supports other African-American history initiatives.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area tells the history and generates awareness of the many struggles for freedom in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Approximately 200 historic sites across 41 counties in Kansas and Missouri comprise the heritage area and its stories include the settlement of the western frontier, the Missouri-Kansas Border War, U.S. Civil War, and more recent struggles like the modern Civil Rights Movement. The heritage area includes several online African American history tours in the region in addition to African American history exhibits, programming, field trips, and other efforts.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area became a part of the African American Civil Rights Network in 2024.
The African American Civil Rights Network recognizes the African American Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the sacrifices made by those who fought against discrimination and segregation. Created by the African American Civil Rights Act of 2017, and coordinated by the National Park Service, the Network tells the stories of the people, places, and events of the U.S. African American Civil Rights Movement through a collection of public and private resources to include properties, facilities, and programs.