#benjamin pap singleton

[lboogie1906]

Captain John Lewis Waller (January 12, 1850 – 1907) was a lawyer, politician, journalist, publisher, businessman, military leader, and diplomat whose rise culminated in his becoming the US consul to Madagascar. He was the grandfather of World editor, poet, composer, and lyricist Andy Razaf.

He was born enslaved in New Madrid County, Missouri. At the end of the American Civil War, he moved with his family to a farm in Tama County, Iowa. His formal education began in 1863, he graduated high school in Toledo, Iowa.

He entered politics while living in Iowa. While living in Cedar Rapids and working as a barber, he was permitted to use the law library of Judge N.M. Hubbard.

He passed the bar in October 1877. On May 1 of the next year, he moved to Topeka, Kansas, in response to “Pap” Singleton’s call for African Americans to colonize the state.

On March 10, 1882, he founded the Western Recorder; the newspaper continued publication until 1885 in Lawrence, Kansas. In Topeka, Kansas, in February 1888, he and his cousin Anthony Morton established The American Citizen.

In 1888, he became the first African American presidential elector, supporting the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton. He was charged with the responsibility to transport the results of the Kansan vote to DC that year.

After the election, he unsuccessfully campaigned to become the state auditor for Kansas. In 1891, President Harrison named him US consul to the Merina Kingdom of Madagascar.

He returned to the US, gathered his family, and began a law practice in Kansas City.

In August 1898, he organized a company of African American soldiers to serve in the Spanish–American War. The group became Company C of the 23rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry, with him serving as a captain. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[taytayb1993]

The Legend of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and the Exodusters of Kansas.

Hello, cowboys, cowgirls, and everyone who are fond of the western cowboy lifestyle, I know that some of you heard of Benjamin Pap Singleton and the African Americans who settled in the Kansas area. I looked up about him and the Exodusters from different sources to post accurate facts, so here it is.

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born as a slave in 1809 in Tennessee where was several times sold as a slave, but he managed to escape. He fled to the northern part of the Midwest, possibly close to Canada. Sources claimed that he settled in Michigan and established and operated a secret boardinghouse for escaped slaves. After the Civil War and the emancipation, Singleton returned to Tennessee where he convinced himself to help his people to improve their lives. 

In the late 1860s, he began to organizing an effort to buy up Tennessee farmland for blacks, but failed when the white landowners refused to sell, even at a fair price. According to some sources, African Americans enjoyed rights and privileges as American citizens in the South, but that changed when the federal troops were removed, their rights were no longer secure. The Ku Klux Klan set up a campaign to strike terror and exterminate the blacks who refused to submit their will and the sharecropping system virtually re-enslaved Black tenant farmers.                    

Singleton set his sight on Kansas as he considered that it was famous for Jim Brown’s efforts and it’s struggle against slavery. He also considered the state new Canaan and claimed himself as black Moses. Benjamin Singleton and his partner named Columbus Johnson staked out a black settlement in Cherokee County, but it failed, and a second settlement in Morris County. Singleton spread the words about his settlement as he traveled through the South organizing parties to colonize in Kansas, as well as distributed promotional posters that circulated widely across the south, and he formed a company along with Johnson that helped hundreds of blacks move to Kansas between 1877 and 1979. Nearly 300 African Americans followed Singleton to Kansas, some lived in “Singleton’s colony in Cherokee County, others settled in Wyandotte, in Topeka's Tennessee Town, and in Dunlap Colony near present Emporia. When the blacks headed west, they been described as Exodusters and Benjamin Singleton himself described as the “Father of the Exodus”. More sources claimed that 50,000 blacks fled to Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, but some had been turned back by whites patrolling the rivers and roads. By the year 1879, it became known as the year of the “Great Exodus”. 

In 1880, Benjamin Singleton was called testify at the Congressional hearings about the Exodusters. Singleton began a new phase in his campaign to aid his people, organizing a party called the United Colored Links in the black section of Topeka, Kansas, called "Tennessee Town" because so many of that state lived there.  Affiliated with the Greenbacks, a white workers' party that called for fundamental social change in the United States, Singleton's Links party was intended to help African Americans acquire their own factories and start their own industries. Unfortunately, there was not enough capital within the black community to achieve this goal because blacks who migrated to the state had no money nor economic resource as they arrived daily by hundred and struggled economically. The Black communities appealed to the state government for assistance, resulting in the creation of the Kansas Freedmen’s Relief Association in 1879. The mission of the KFRA was to collect and distribute resources for struggling African Americans in Kansas. Though many African Americans came unprepared, most who remained were able to improve the quality of their lives and made important contributions to the state and the communities in which they lived. 

In 1883, Benjamin Singleton shifted his sights again and founded an organization called the Chief League, which encouraged blacks to emigrate to the island of Cyprus. Few responded to his call, so in 1885 he formed the Trans-Atlantic Society to help black people move back to their ancestral homeland in Africa, but, unfortunately, by 1887, this group had been proven unsuccessful. Singleton retired from his self-appointed mission due to poor health and he died in 1892 in St. Louis. His legacy lives on as his influence spread among the African American communities, inspired them to established a society in which blacks owned lands, directed industries, and held power would live on. It was probably the first black organization that was successful at as to improve African Americans to uplift themselves and contribute among within themselves. The second Black/African American organizations that followed Benjamin Singleton’s movement’s footstep is Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association which it was successful in the 1920s as it encouraged black people globally.                                                                

[streamingfanatic1963]

Article: How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

[seeselfblack]

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton led Blacks out of the South 

The birth of "Pap" Singleton in 1809 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black abolitionist who helped lead hundreds of African-Americans out of the South and into the West, specifically to Kansas, during Reconstruction.

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, born in Nashville, TN, was sold into slavery several times. He always managed to escape, and he eventually settled in Detroit, returning to Tennessee after the Civil War. In the late 1860s, Singleton tried to help Blacks buy farmland in his home state. That failed when white owners would not sell at reasonable prices. Soon Singleton began to encourage African-Americans in Tennessee to move to Kansas, where with his partner, Columbus Johnson, Singleton had found a location for a Black community. He helped orchestrate this because of his vision for a society in which African-Americans owned their own land.

Singleton printed up posters urging people to come to his colony. Many African Americans responded, and tried to leave the South. Only about 50,000 actually completed the trip, because White residents patrolling river and land routes prevented hundreds of others from leaving. Those who made the trip west were called "The Exodusters.”

In 1881, Singleton began a new effort, organizing a party called the United Colored Links. This party was affiliated with the white workers' Greenback Party. The Links was founded to help African-Americans acquire their own factories and industries. Lack of capital in the Black community ended the United Colored Links' existence.

In 1883, Singleton founded the Chief League, a group that encouraged African-Americans to immigrate to the island of Cyprus. This did not get much support and eventually failed. In 1885, Singleton tried again, this time founding the Trans-Atlantic Society to help African-Americans move back for Africa.

By the time this last attempt failed in 1887, Singleton was in poor health. He died in Kansas City, MO on February 17, 1900.

See also: 

- BENJAMIN “PAP” SINGLETON (1809-1892) 

- From Slaves to Soldiers and Beyond - Williamson County, Tennessee's African American History

- PBS: The Exodusters 

- The Exodusters 

via aaregistry.org 

[k3mistryproductions]

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1809 as a slave. Eventually Singleton managed to escape and fled to Canada, but later settled in Detroit, Michigan. It was here that he ran a boardinghouse and sheltered runaway Black slaves. Between 1877 and 1879 Singleton formed a company in Kansas with a partner named Columbus Johnson, which helped hundreds of Black Tennesseans relocate to Kansas. Due to his success with helping Blacks—known as the “Exodusters”— relocate out west, Singleton became known as the “Father of the Exodus.” In 1881, he helped organize a party called the United Colored Links, which as located in an area where Blacks lived in Topeka, Kansas. This party was meant to help Black to acquire factories and start their own industries. In 1885, Singleton formed the Trans-Atlantic Society to help Blacks move back to Africa. Both ventures failed.

[throughblackeyez]

February 28

February 28, 1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opened school for Blacks in New York City. February 28, 1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island (N.Y.). Seven whites killed. Two Black male slaves and an Indian slave were hanged, and a Black woman was burned alive. February 28, 1778 Rhode Island General Assembly in precedent-breaking act authorized the enlistment of slaves. February 28, 1859 Arkansas legislature required free Blacks to choose between exile and enslavement. February 28, 1871 Second Enforcement Act gave federal officers and courts control of registration and voting in congressional elections. February 28, 1879 Southern Blacks fled political and economic exploitation in "Exodus of 1879." Exodus continued for several years. One of the major leaders of the Exodus movement was a former slave, Benjamin ("Pap") Singleton. February 28, 1932 Richard Spikes invented/patented automatic gear shift. February 28, 1940 United States population: 131,669,275. Black population: 12,865,518 (9.8 per cent). Richard Wright's Native Son published. February 28, 1943 Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan in starring roles. February 28, 1948 Sgt. Cornelius F. Adjetey becomes the first martyr for national independence of Ghana. February 28, 1984 Musician and entertainer Michael Jackson wins eight Grammy Awards. His album, "Thriller", broke all sales records to-date, and remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time. February 28, 1990 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Cornelius Gunter, lead singer of the Coasters, was shot to death in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gunter joined the group in 1957 and was around for such hits as "Poison Ivy" and "Charlie Brown." Philip Emeagwali awarded the Gordon Bell Prize (computing's Nobel Prize) for solving one of the twenty most difficult problems in the computing field. #TheMoreYouKnow #BlackExcellence #BlackHistoryMonth #ThisDayInHistory As Black History Month comes to a "close" I pay tribute to those that came before and paved the way for the ones who will carry on. And to those who think black people are lazy, unintelligent, inadequate, thugs and welfare queens, let this serve notice to you that we are and always will be the ones who excel in the face of adversity, the ones who invent out of necessity, the ones who innovate and change American culture. We are the ones whom you try and emulate and imitate. We are the ones who have made this country great. Our backs have been bruised, our necks have been hung, but our spirit will forever be alive, stronger than ever. We are magic. We matter. We are Black Excellence.

[jenashpee-blog]

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809–1892) was an American activist and businessman best known for his role in establishing African American settlements in Kansas. A former slave from Tennessee who escaped to freedom in 1846, he became a noted abolitionist, community leader, and spokesman for African-American civil rights. He returned to Tennessee during the Union occupation in 1862, but soon concluded that blacks would never achieve economic equality in the white-dominated South. After the end of Reconstruction, Singleton organized the movement of thousands of black colonists, known as Exodusters, to found settlements in Kansas. A prominent voice for early black nationalism, he became involved in promoting and coordinating black-owned businesses in Kansas and developed an interest in the Back-to-Africa movement. #BenjaminSingleton #Pap #blackhistory #BenjaminPapSingleton #blackhistorymonth #slave #slavery #abolitionist #backtoafrica #kansas #tennessee #civilrights #activist #africanamericans #communityleader #south #civilwar #colonists #freedom

[lboogie1906]

John Lewis Waller (January 12, 1850 – 1907) was a lawyer, politician, journalist, publisher, businessman, military leader, and diplomat whose rise culminated in his becoming the US consul to Madagascar. He was the grandfather of Negro World editor, poet, composer, and lyricist Andy Razaf. He was born to slavery in New Madrid County, Missouri. At the end of the American Civil War, he moved with his family to a farm in Tama County, Iowa. His formal education began in 1863, he graduated high school in Toledo, Iowa. He entered politics while living in Iowa. While living in Cedar Rapids and working as a barber, he was permitted to use the law library of Judge N.M. Hubbard. He passed the bar in October 1877. On May 1 of the next year, he moved to Topeka, Kansas, in response to "Pap" Singleton's call for African-Americans to colonize the state. On March 10, 1882, he founded the Western Recorder; the newspaper continued publication until 1885 in Lawrence, Kansas. In Topeka, Kansas, in February 1888, Waller and his cousin Anthony Morton established The American Citizen. In 1888, he became the first African American presidential elector, supporting the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton. He was charged with the responsibility to transport the results of the Kansan vote to DC that year. After the election, he unsuccessfully campaigned to become the state auditor for Kansas. In 1891, President Harrison named him US consul to the Merina Kingdom of Madagascar. After his release, he returned to the US, gathered his family, and began a law practice in Kansas City. In August 1898, he organized a company of African-American soldiers to serve in the Spanish–American War. The group became Company C of the 23rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry, with him serving as a captain. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnT-QgpOkeN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[robinlynnemabin]

The Benjamin "Pap" Singleton & Allen Brothers Solution: 619-768-2945 http://bit.ly/2AveAJz

[wakandama2]

Let's not forget the lead Exoduster in the migration of freed Black people to Kansas after the Civil War.

Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton who coined "Ho Kansas"

I cant find public photos of them but I have worked in a Black History archives that confirmed the O'dair family (later Adair a lot of Black families in Kansas/Oklahoma have claim to the linage) as the first Black family established in Kansas in today's Lyon county.

Black History in the American Old West

Howdy, followers. Today, I’m going to show you these old pictures of African Americans in the American Old West, also featuring photos of famous and legendary Black figures that I considered them as legends of the American western history.

I’m going to be honest with you all as I’m going to give prosperous facts; African American were and still are cowboys and cowgirls. We already had these skills of saddling, cattle ranching, farming, agriculture, and riding horses, back in the ancient times in Northern/Western Africa before Christ, Islam, and colonization. It was an golden age back than.

Bill Pickett (1871-1932), rodeo performer.

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy and saddler.

Jesse Stahl (1879-1935), cowboy and rodeo star.

John Ware (1845?-1905), rancher, saddler, and cowboy.  

James Pierson Beckwourth (1805-1866), mountain man, fur trader, scout, and explorer. 

Isom Dart (Ned Huddleston) (1849-1900), cowboy, criminal, and outlaw.  

Bass Reeves (1838-1910), lawman and deputy U.S. marshal

George Fletcher (1890-1973), rodeo star and cowboy. 

George Glenn  (1850–1931), cowboy.   

Dangerfield Newby (1815-1859), freedom fighter and rebellion.    

Mary Fields (1832-1914), mail courier. 

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), freedom fighter, slave rebellion, scout, spy, nurse, and guerrilla soldier. 

John Horse (1812–1882), slave rebellion and freedom fighter. 

Now, here are old pictures of black people in the old American west. 

This is John Ware and his wife and kids. 

That’s Bass Reeves. 

Bill Pickett’s family members. 

This is Harriet Tubman in her previous age. 

 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and human right activist. 

[streamingfanatic1963]

Article: How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

[bunkie2021]

From little known Black History - DID YOU KNOW Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809–1892) was nicknamed "Black Moses", “Pap” Singleton, “Father of the Black Exodus”and “Moses of the Colored Exodus”. He was a former slave who, later in his life, became known for leading African American migrations from the post-Reconstruction South into Kansas. From 1877 to 1879, through the Edgefield Real Estate and Homestead Association which he had formed, Singleton had steered more than 20,000 migrants to Kansas. #BlackHistoryMonth

[voncrobead]

#Repost from @thedayafter2016 with @regram.app ... Not so long ago: Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born in 1809 in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was several times sold as a slave but always managed to escape. Eventually, he fled to and settled in Detroit, MI, where he ran a boardinghouse that frequently sheltered runaway slaves. After the Civil War, he returned to Nashville convinced that the key to salvation for Blacks was farm ownership and that it was his duty to remove Blacks from the south. His first attempts to acquire land in Tennessee were unsuccessful so he and his associates set their eyes on Kansas. In 1878 Singleton led his first 200 emigrants to Kansas. Between 1877-1879 he steered over 20,000 migrants there earning him the nickname "The Father of the Exodus," and those who followed as "Exodusters.” The massive migration of Blacks from the South peaked in 1879. The driving force was the withdrawl of federal troops from the South in 1877, which marked the end of Reconstruction and the return of racial oppression. By 1879 some 50,000 Blacks fled West to freedom (Kansas, Missouri, Indiana Illinois) while thousands were turned back by whites patrolling the rivers and roads. In 1880, Singleton was called to testify at Congressional hearings on the alarming migration of Blacks. In 1881 he organized the United Colored Links in a Black section of Topeka, Kansas, called "Tennessee Town" because so many natives of that state lived there. The party was intended to help Blacks acquire their own factories and start their own industries. Unfortunately, he discovered that there was not enough capital within the Black community to achieve this goal. In 1883 he founded the Chief League, which encouraged Blacks to emigrate to the island of Cyprus. Few responded so in 1885 he formed the Trans-Atlantic Society to help Black people move back to Africa. This group, too, proved unsuccessful. Suffering poor health he retired and in 1892 he died. His vision of a society in which Blacks owned the land, industries, and held power lived on, finding a charismatic champion in Marcus Garvey #benjaminpapsingleton #marcusgarvey #fatheroftheexodus #exodusters #kansas #Notsolongag

[pryorinc]

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809–1892) was an American activist and businessman best known for his role in establishing African American settlements in Kansas. A former slave from Tennessee who escaped to freedom in 1846, he became a noted abolitionist, community leader, and spokesman for African-American civil rights. He returned to Tennessee during the Union occupation in 1862, but soon concluded that blacks would never achieve economic equality in the white-dominated South. After the end of Reconstruction, Singleton organized the movement of thousands of black colonists, known as Exodusters, to found settlements in Kansas. A prominent voice for early black nationalism, he became involved in promoting and coordinating black-owned businesses in Kansas and developed an interest in the Back-to-Africa movement.

[audiopedia2016]

What is BLACK SEPARATISM? What does BLACK SEPARATISM mean? BLACK SEPARATISM meaning - BLACK SEPARATISM definition - BLACK SEPARATISM explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under http://ift.tt/yjiNZw license. Black separatism is a separatist political movement that seeks separate economic and cultural development for those of African descent in societies, particularly in the United States. Black separatism is a subcategory of black nationalism, stemming from the idea of racial solidarity, and implies that blacks should organize themselves on the basis of their common experience of oppression as a result of their blackness, culture, and African heritage. Black separatism in its purest form, as a subcategory of black nationalism, asserts that blacks and whites ideally should form two independent nations. Black separatists also often seek their original cultural homeland. Black separatists generally think that black people are hindered in their advancement in a society dominated by a white majority. NOI sermons and philosophy suggests the group is more aligned with black separatism. See sermons by NOI leader Louis Farrakhan. Also NBPP is considered a black separatist group. There are similarities between black nationalism and black separatism. They both aim for the rights of blacks, but there are a few differences. All black separatists are black nationalists but not all black nationalists are black separatists. Black separatists believe that black people should be physically separated from other races, primarily whites; black separatists would want a separate nation for black people This is slightly different from black nationalists because black nationalists don't always believe in a physical separation of black people. In some form, black nationalists do believe in separation, but not physical separation. Black nationalists focus more on black pride, justice, and identity. Their belief is that blacks should be proud of their own skin, heritage, and beauty. They also believe that there should be justice for black people especially in America. Examples of black national movement include Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party. A specific example of a separatist movement is the Pan-Africanism movement. In his discussion of black nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the historian Wilson Jeremiah Moses observes that "black separatism, or self-containment, which in its extreme form advocated the perpetual physical separation of the races, usually referred only to a simple institutional separatism, or the desire to see black people making independent efforts to sustain themselves in a proven hostile environment." Scholars Talmadge Anderson and James Stewart further make a distinction between the "classical version of Black separatism advocated by Booker T. Washington" and "modern separatist ideology." They observe that "Washington's accommodationist advice" at the end of the nineteenth century "was for Blacks not to agitate for social, intellectual, and professional equality with Whites." By contrast, they observe, "contemporary separatists exhort Blacks not only to equal Whites but to surpass them as a tribute to and redemption of their African heritage." Anderson and Stewart add, moreover, that in general "modern black separatism is difficult to define because of its similarity to black nationalism." Indeed, black separatism's specific goals were historically in flux and varied from group to group. Martin Delany in the 19th century and Marcus Garvey in the 1920s outspokenly called for African Americans to return to Africa, by moving to Liberia. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton looked to form separatist colonies in the American West. The Nation of Islam calls for several independent black states on American soil. More mainstream views within black separatism hold that black people would be better served by schools and businesses exclusively for black people, and by local black politicians and police.