"Flyin' West" and Nicodemus, Kansas

Flyin' West, a Play by Pearl Cleage

• Flyin' West: A Guide for Study (Montclair State University Theater Department) 25 pgs. - includes photos ... See also photos from the Montclair State University performance.
• Contemporary Plays by Women of Color (See chapter 3 for Flyin' West.) Also available at Doyle Library Reserve Desk, 4th floor, PS627.M5 C66 1996
• Articles about "Flyin' West, " Literature Resource Center database (SRJC users only)
• "Flyin' West," North American Theatre Online database. (SRJC users only) - Lists several 20th century productions of the play.
• Flyin' West - Scenes from an October 2005 performance by the New Group Theatre
• Reviews:
  • New York Times, October 10, 1993
  • New York Times, June 19, 1994
  • Variety, February 21, 1994
  • Washington Post, September 16, 2005
  • Washington Post, February 24, 2005
  • Monroe, Steven. "Black Women as Pioneers - Pearl Cleage's Play Flyin' West About Injustices Suffered by African American Women,"American Visions October - November 1994.

Nicodemus, Kansas

• Legends of Kansas: Nicodemus, A Black Pioneer Town - includes photos
• Nicodemus, Kansas; The African American Mosaic (Library of Congress Resource Guide) - includes photos
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection - Type in the search words nicodemus kansas - photos
• Google Images search for words nicodemus kansas - photos
• Google Scholar - Type in the phrase "nicodemus kansas" (Include the quotation marks.)
• Question of the Month: Nicodemus, Kansas (Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University)
• Nicodemus
• The Story of Nicodemus National Park Service
• Nicodemus National Historic Site ... more
• Nicodemus (NPR audio)
• Historic American Building Survey - Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas - 10 black and white photos of houses and landscape
• Digital Image Collections - includes photos
• The Spirit of Nicodemus - Survivors remember Nicodemus; includes descriptions of landscape.
• Ghost Town--Almost; The Depression Hits a Negro Town. Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life.

• 19th Century - The 1870s: Music and Theatre
• Performance of Piano Piece by black composer Thomas Greene Bethune ("Blind Tom")

Descriptions of Nicodemus

Black History Month Takes a Look at Nicodemus, Kansas

"The settlement included two newspapers, three general stores, at least three churches, a livery stable, hotels, a bank, a school, and a literary society among many homes. It even had an ice cream parlor. It was an all black Western Frontier town right in the middle of a treeless prairie. By 1885, the town was booming. It had grown very quickly in eight years. However, when the railroad passed them up, the population started to decline. The railroad claimed there wasn't enough people in the town for them to go through." etc.