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The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration Richard Edwards
The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration
Richard Edwards
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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