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New York Public Library

In Motion: African American Migration Experience: Western Migration: To Kansas

For Students 9th - 10th
From the extensive site about African-American migrations, this part of the site focuses on Exodusters and African-Americans who moved to Kansas after the Civil War. Read first-person accounts and see photographs of these hardy...
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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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Legends of America

Legends of Kansas: Exodusters of Kansas

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the exodusters and the reasons the blacks left the South and migrated to Kansas after the Civil War.
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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 the West: Exodusters

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a description of the Exodusters and their impact on the American West through their immigration.