 Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas, only to be stranded in St. Louis, Missouri.Black churches in St. Louis, together with Eastern philanthropists, formed the Colored Relief Board and the Kansas Freedmen's Aid Society to help those stranded in St. Louis to reach Kansas.One particular group was the "Kansas Fever Exodus", which consisted of six thousand blacks who moved from Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas to Kansas.