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Oscar Micheaux's novel The Homesteader: a Novel (1917) is a semi-autobiographical story of an African American homesteader in South Dakota shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! is based in the Oklahoma land rush. The 1962 Elvis Presley musical film Follow That Dream, adapted from Pioneer, Go Home!
Black homesteaders established their claims under a number of different federal laws. The most significant of these was the Homestead Act of 1862, a landmark U.S. law that opened ownership of public lands to male citizens (who had never borne arms against the United States), widows, single women, and immigrants pledging to become citizens ...
Homesteading has been pursued in various ways around the world and throughout different historical eras. It is typically distinguished from rural village or commune living by the isolation of the homestead (socially, physically, or both). Use of the term in the United States dates back to the Homestead Act (1862) and before.
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups.
In all, more than 160 million acres (650,000 km 2; 250,000 sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders. [1] However, until the United States abolished slavery in 1865 and the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868, enslaved and free Blacks could not benefit ...
In 2004, homesteader families won a $10 million compensation fund from the U.S. government. Today Los Alamos County, where the lab is based, is one of the richest and best-educated in the United ...
The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a United States federal law intended to offer land to prospective farmers, white and black, in the South following the American Civil War. It was repealed in 1876 after mostly benefiting white recipients.
Dick, Everett Dick, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. "The role of the land speculator in western development." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 66.3 (1942): 314-333. online; Hibbard, Benjamin Horace.