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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    exoduses of Jews The Exodus Jewish exodus from the Muslim world Yom HaAliyah Exodusters (African American) Great Migration (African American) History of immigration...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Reactions Anti-lynching movement Atlanta Compromise Back to Africa movement Exodusters movement Great Migration Niagara Movement NAACP Silent Parade Related...
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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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    1879, hundreds followed Singleton to Kansas. These people are known as Exodusters. After Singleton's death, the community continued to grow through the...
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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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    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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    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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    settlements in Western Canada African-American history African diaspora Exodusters Black homesteaders Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) Hillbilly Highway...
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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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    winter. Armour returned to Chicago and raised funds for the stranded Exodusters, reporting, "I talked with a great many of them and was surprised at their...
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  • McKissack about a farmboy, Everett Turner, who runs away and joins the Exodusters, travelling to Nicodemus, Kansas. Away West has been reviewed by a number...
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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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  • 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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    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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    stop discriminatory practices. He established an organization to aid Exodusters. He also helped establish Lincoln University. He led protest of the siting...
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  • Reactions Anti-lynching movement Atlanta Compromise Back to Africa movement Exodusters movement Great Migration Niagara Movement NAACP Silent Parade Related...
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