African Americans in Missouri

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Early in Missouri's history, African Americans were enslaved in the state;{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/curriculum/africanamerican/timeline/timeline1

|title=Missouri Digital Heritage: Timeline of Missouri's African American History|website=www.sos.mo.gov|access-date=13 January 2024}} some of its black slaves purchased their own freedom.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/Kids/history/african-americans|title=African Americans|website=www.sos.mo.gov|access-date=13 January 2024}}

On January 11, 1865, slavery was abolished in the state.{{cite book | last=Greene | first=L.J. | last2=Kremer | first2=G.R. | last3=Holland | first3=A.F. | title=Missouri's Black Heritage | publisher=University of Missouri Press | year=1993 | isbn=978-0-8262-0904-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G357gYrd_goC}} The Fifteenth Amendment in the year 1870 had given African American black men the rights to vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/aapc/intro|title=Progress Among Prejudice Introduction

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As of 2020, 699,840 blacks live in Missouri.[https://oa.mo.gov/sites/default/files/Total%20Black%20Population%202020.pdf Total black population 2020] oa.mo.gov {{dead link|date=January 2024}}