During both strikes, black miners were brought to Yale via the Missouri Pacific Railroad by the Western Coal Mining Company.

[5] By 1900, Yale had grown into a town with a post office, stores, schools, churches, a doctor, and several buildings and homes for the miners and their families.

[8] In 1900, the “Big Colored* Band from Yale,” serenaded president Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival in Pittsburg, Kansas.

[8] Due to the black migration, racial violence and anti-black sentiment started to grow in the area that was typical during the American Nadir.

[4] By the early 1930s, most of the African American residents had been forced out of their homes taking part in the Great Migration moving north to Kansas City.