As crowds pour into streets across Kansas and nation, a nagging question: Is No Kings sustainable?

By: Mary Sanchez

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: March 28, 2026

Words: 911

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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Eliza Broadnax Bradshaw died in Jetmore, Kansas, on July 26, 1913.

She was 86.

Eliza spent at least the first 40 years of her life enslaved in Kentucky.

She spent the last portion in southwest Kansas, a widowed Exoduster, part of a migratory movement of Black people fleeing the violence they endured post-Reconstruction.

Eliza’s story is not well-known. But she’s the inspiration for a book with answers to a growing national debate.

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