"The Exodites." Manhattan Enterprise (Manhattan, KS), May 2, 1879, https://www.newspapers.com/embed/146899453/
Garcia, Rafael. "After USD 383 Vote on School Name, Douglass School Reminder of Manhattan's Segregated Past." Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan, KS), December 1, 2019. https://themercury.com/news/after-usd-383-vote-on-school-name-douglass-school-reminder-of-manhattans-segregated-past/article_9d3b1ef3-c24d-5abe-b7ea-250c1e6ef6f5.html
Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Schuley, Marcia and Margaret Parker. The Exodusters of 1879 and Other Black Pioneers of Riley County, Kansas. Self-published, 2019.
Walton, Geraldine Baker. 140 Years of Soul: A History of African-Americans in Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-2005. Manhattan, KS: KS Publishing, 2008.
The Riley County Historical Society & Museum put together a self-guided driving tour that takes you through Manhattan's African American history: https://www.rileychs.org/document-center.cfm?fx=W0QYHH002Z5OI8S9
Read one of the Chapman Center's Rural Telegraph blog posts, which features an interview with Marcia Schuley, one of the writers of The Exodusters of 1879 and Other Black Pioneers of Riley County, Kansas: https://ruraltelegraph.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/the-exodusters-of-1879/
