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Historical Timeline

Sequential Timeline of Racist Incidents, Events, and Sites

Place Kansas and Oklahoma Clear place All places
1879
1879
institutional discrimination

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].