Al-Mn alloys containing between 0.5 and 4.8 wt. percent Mn have been rapidly solidified by tungsten inert gas weld traversing (from 1.3 to 4.8 wt. percent Mn and a solification front velocity Vs from 4.3 to 24 mm s-1) and laser surface melt traversing (from 0.5 to 4.6 wt. percemt Mn and Vs from 40 to 290 mm s-1). Measurements of the manganese content for both unextended and extended α-Al solid solution are in good agreement with the predictions obtained with the model of Kurz, Giovanola and Trivedi for dendritic growth. At sufficiently high growth rates, microsegregation-free microstructures were obtained. The velocity required to produce this structure increased with increasing manganese level, in agreement with the theory of absolute stability of a rapidly advancing planar liquid-solid interface.