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Two Unreconciled Strivings

African American baseball players of Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia Family

Going West The "Exoduster Movement" led especially by Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809-1892), offered the hope of westward settlement to African-Americans frustrated by the lack of social and economic freedom in southern states. Between 1879 and 1881, about 60,000 African-Americans settled in Kansas and the Oklahoma Indian Territories in one of the first large migrations of African-Americans out of the South. The black township of Nicodemus is located in Graham County, Kansas.

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"Going from de cotton fields"

Emigrants Travelling to Kansas
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"Ho for Kansas" broadside
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Nicodemus page

First Baptist Church
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