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  2. African Americans in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Kansas was admitted to the United States as a free state in 1861. Some Black slaves were imported to Kansas. Many Black migrants came from the Southern United States as hired laborers while others traveled to Kansas as escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Some moved from the South during the Kansas Exodus in the 1860s.

  3. Exodusters - Wikipedia

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    The black population of Kansas increased by some 26,000 people during the 1870s. [35] Historian Nell Painter further asserts that "the sustained migration of some 9,500 Blacks from Tennessee and Kentucky to Kansas during the decade far exceeded the much publicized migration of 1879, which netted no more than about 4,000 people from Louisiana". [36]

  4. Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]

  5. From McComb to Milwaukee: Black migration source of ... - AOL

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    The Gutter family story of migration from the south to the north is similar to many other Black families migrating to Milwaukee.

  6. Second Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002). Gregory, James. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1991). Lemann, Nicholas.

  7. African-American diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The African-American diaspora refers to communities of people of African descent who previously lived in the United States. These people were mainly descended from formerly enslaved African persons in the United States or its preceding European colonies in North America that had been brought to America via the Atlantic slave trade and had suffered in slavery until the American Civil War.

  8. ‘Now is the time for Black repair’: What might reparations ...

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    Kansas City stands as “a shining light of the disparities that exist within Black America,” one local leader said.

  9. U.S. Black population sees biggest growth in smaller cities - AOL

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    The Mannings are part of an emerging pattern of Black migration from larger cities to smaller ones, primarily in the South, according to Sabrina Pendergrass, an assistant professor for African ...