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The Black West : a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States
\"This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill--and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The First Migrants
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 650,000
acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created
Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and
DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver
and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where
they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by
Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one
Nicodemus descendant, they found \"a place they could experience
real freedom,\" though in a racist society that freedom could never
be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black
people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first
account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great
Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two
distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important
Black homesteader communities and the several themes that
characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead
records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders'
descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the
homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom-and their
greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.
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Born a slave, died a pioneer : Nathan Harrison and the historical archaeology of legend
\"Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. In a lifetime of hard-won progress, Harrison survived the horrors of slavery in the antebellum South, endured the mania of the California Gold Rush, and prospered in the rugged chaos of the Wild West. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography\"-- Provided by publisher.
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African Americans in the West
Based on the latest research, this work provides a new look at the lives of African Americans in the Western United States, from the colonial era to the present. From colonial times to the present, this volume captures the experiences of the westward migration of African Americans. Based on the latest research, it offers a fresh look at the many ways African Americans influenced—and were influenced by—the development of the U.S. frontier. African Americans in the West covers the rise of the slave trade to its expansion into what was at the time the westernmost United States; from the post–Civil War migrations, including the Exodusters who fled the South for Kansas in 1879 to the mid–20th century civil rights movement, which saw many critical events take place in the West—from the organization of the Black Panthers in Oakland to the tragic Watts riots in Los Angeles.
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The St. Louis African American community and the Exodusters
In the aftermath of the Civil War, thousands of former slaves made their way from the South to the Kansas plains.Called \"Exodusters,\" they were searching for their own promised land.Bryan Jack now tells the story of this American exodus as it played out in St.Louis, a key stop in the journey west.Many of the Exodusters landed on the St.
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Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
\"The true story of Mary Fields, aka \"Stagecoach Mary,\" a trailblazing African American woman who helped settle the American West.\"--Provided by the Publisher.
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Empire, Wyoming: An African American Community in the Equality State
The African American experience in Wyoming has been ignored or purged from the popular historical narrative of the American West as the preserve of white male explorers, pioneers, outlaws, and cowboys. However, from 1908 to the early 1920s, an African American community of homesteaders called Empire flourished north-east of Torrington, Wyoming. Despite a single article published by Todd Guenther in Nebraska History in 2008, the existence of this community and the contributions the African American residents made to the state’s culture and economy is still widely un-known to the public in and outside of Wyoming. This thesis will expand on Guenther’s article to provide a narrative-based, social history of the African American settlers in Empire. Relying heavily on primary sources like historic newspapers, supplemented by secondary sources to provide historical context, this thesis will follow the lives of Empire’s settlers from the social upheaval of the Civil War, through the failures of Reconstruction, and into a new life on the Wyoming frontier. Despite the hard work and resourcefulness of the settlers, the social and political realities of racism and racial violence in the Equality State, compounded by an agricultural depression after World War I, and the physical and social isolation of People of Color in a remote, rural state, ultimately led to the community’s demise.
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The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers,The Kentucky African American Encyclopediais an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth.
The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women.
For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history,The Kentucky African American Encyclopediais an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.
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Black Pioneers
Many black pioneers contributed to the exploration and development of California. Entrepreneurs, trappers, and miners helped to establish its economy, while several prominent blacks participated in the Bear Flag Rebellion of 1845, the first step towards California statehood. These and other trailblazers left a strong legacy for the black pacesetters of today.
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