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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Western Migration and Homesteading

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains text and photos on the African-American exodus to the West. Includes primary source documents and maps from the era.
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Other

Postbellum African American Society and Culture: Black Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Encyclopedia of American Social History. Read about the black migration to the West, primarily Kansas and Oklahoma after the end of Reconstruction and the institution of black codes in the South.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Stories of the Westward Expansion: Exodus to Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains an article written on the African American exodus to Kansas to farm in the late 19th century.
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PBS

Pbs: Archives of the West: Photo: Exodusters Wait for Steamer

For Students 9th - 10th
Photo of exodusters waiting for a steamboat to take them to the west in late 1870s.