The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration - Richard Edwards - Books - University of Nebraska Press - 9781496230843 - August 30, 2023
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The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration


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The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states.


456 pages, 80 photographs, 19 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 appendix, index

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 30, 2023
ISBN13 9781496230843
Publishers University of Nebraska Press
Pages 508
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   952 g

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