Speaker to tell about state's black cowboys
Black cowboys in Nebraska will be the topic at the NeKota Reading Council’s program at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, in the Bordeaux Room of the Student Center at Chadron State College. The program will be open to the public without charge.
The presenter will be Vicki Troxel Harris, who now lives in Hay Springs. She has been a teacher at Arcadia, Bassett and Lexington, and will recount several of the oral histories she has collected about former slaves who came to Nebraska and worked on ranches following the Civil War.
They include Jim Kelly and Amos Harris from the Lexington area and Roy Hayes of Cherry County, who had the reputation of being able “to catch anything with legs.”
A few years ago, Harris gave a program at Chadron State on the blacks who homesteaded at Brownlee in southern Cherry County.
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