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1879

institutional discrimination

Exodus of 1879

Kansas and Oklahoma, US

Exodus of 1879
Exodus of 1879

Thousands of Black Americans fled Jim Crow violence in the South by migrating west to Kansas and Oklahoma, seeking land under the Homestead Act [2]. This movement was a direct response to escalating racial terror and political disenfranchisement in Southern states [2].

African American Jim Crow Land & treaties

Primary sources & references

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