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].
Kansas and Oklahoma, US
African American
Jim Crow
Land & treaties
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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].