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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Edwards, Richard, 1944- author.     Subjects     African American farmers -- Great Plains -- History.     African Americans -- Migrations.     Agricultural colonies -- Great Plains -- History.     African Americans -- Land tenure -- Great Plains -- History.     African American pioneers -- Great Plains -- History.     Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains.     Great Plains -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Edwards, Richard, 1944- author.       by title:      The first migrants :...         MARC Display

The first migrants : how Black homesteaders' quest for land and freedom heralded America's Great Migration / Richard Edwards and Jacob K Friefeld ; preface by Angela Bates. by Edwards, Richard, 1944- author. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023] Subjects African American farmers -- Great Plains -- History.   African Americans -- Migrations.   Agricultural colonies -- Great Plains -- History.   African Americans -- Land tenure -- Great Plains -- History.   African American pioneers -- Great Plains -- History.   Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains.   Great Plains -- History. ISBN:  9781496230843 hardcover : 1496230841 hardcover Description:  xix, 458 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm Contents:  Land! -- Push and Pull -- A new start at Nicodemus -- Nicodemus flourishes -- Henry and Mary Burden's flight to freedom -- Homesteading alone -- DeWitty and the Sandhills -- The Speese Family odyssey -- Opportunity in Sully County -- Tragedy and failure at Empire -- Oscar Micheaux, a/k/a "The Homesteader" -- Sand and success at Dearfield -- Struggles in the desert at Blackdom -- Black homesteaders and the Great Migration -- Gen H's legacy -- Epilogue: Where re the Black farmers? -- Appendix: Black homesteaders and white racism. Requests:  1 Summary:  "The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes which characterize their shared experiences"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 978.02089 Ed Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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