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

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

Richard Edwards with Angela Bates, Jacob K. Friefeld

508 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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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 650,00...

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