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    encourage the Exodusters, but its equal-opportunity stance was more welcoming than most of the country. The most successful of the Exodusters were those...
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  • generation of exodusters". His ancestral background played a role in choosing Fort Scott as the filming location for The Learning Tree. The Exodusters earned...
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  • work and new lives away from the South. These migrants are known as “Exodusters.” While there was work for them in the South and slavery had technically...
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    Singleton organized the movement of thousands of black colonists, known as Exodusters, to found settlements in the free state of Kansas. A prominent voice for...
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  • immigration from the East, from Germany as well as some freedmen called "Exodusters". Farmers first tried to replicate Eastern patterns and grow corn and...
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    Free people of color George Floyd protests Great Migration Second New Exodusters Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009 / Inauguration of Barack Obama 2013...
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    Reconstruction, thrived in the early 20th century with the arrival of Black Exodusters who migrated from neighboring states, especially Kansas. The politician...
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    was established in 1880 as part of the Dunlap Colony, a community of Exodusters, or African-American former slaves who moved from the South to Kansas...
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    Free people of color George Floyd protests Great Migration Second New Exodusters Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009 / Inauguration of Barack Obama 2013...
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    people who migrated from the South after the Civil War were known as Exodusters, who were in search of access to good schools, Black community-centered...
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    Muslim world Forced displacement Forced settlements in the Soviet Union Exodusters Great Migration (African American) History of immigration to the United...
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    Kansas, was a town founded in 1877 by former slaves from Kentucky called Exodusters. Adams, Ashley A. (2016). Examining the Cultural and Historical Impact...
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    late 1870s because of increasing discrimination, they became known as Exodusters. At the same time, the Chisholm Trail was opened and the Wild West era...
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  • Exodus of 1879 (The Kansas Exodus), in which black Americans known as Exodusters fled the Southern United States for Kansas The Exodus (1940), in Belgium...
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    position of postmaster general. By 1879, thousands of African American "Exodusters" packed up and headed to new opportunities in Kansas. The Democrats gained...
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  • clothes to send to aid southern blacks resettling in Kansas, known as Exodusters. Ruffin supported women's suffrage and, in 1869, joined with Julia Ward...
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  • heavy immigration from the East, from Europe, and from Freedmen called "Exodusters". For much of its history, Kansas has had a rural economy based on wheat...
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    and the state's oldest such institution. Many African Americans, called Exodusters,[citation needed] escaped the Klan and racially discriminatory laws in...
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    denied land ownership and other rights in many states, and about 20,000 Exodusters headed west to Kansas between 1879 and 1884, with smaller migrations to...
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    about her experience with making art and writing during the pandemic. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction. Norton. 1976. ISBN 978-0-393-00951-4...
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    thousand Freedmen moved from Southern states to Kansas. Known as the Exodusters, they were lured by the prospect of good, cheap Homestead Law land and...
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    the war in 1865 until 1870. In the 1870s, many former slaves, known as Exodusters, settled on the east side of Lincoln Street between Munson and 12th Streets...
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  • resulted in strict fertility laws. North read books such as Nell Painter's Exodusters to better understand the real-world history of the West before writing...
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    known as Exodusters. They arrived daily in waves of hundreds of people between 1879 and 1880. Unlike the first group led by Singleton, the Exodusters came...
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