Examples of Exodusters in the following topics:
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- The Exodus of 1879, also known as the Kansas Exodus or the Exoduster Movement, refers to the mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
- To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
- Douglass did not disagree with the Exodusters in principle, but he felt that the movement was ill-timed and poorly organized.
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- The Exodus of 1879, also known as the "Kansas Exodus" or the "Exoduster Movement," was the mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
- To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as 40,000 Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
- Douglass did not disagree with the Exodusters in principle, but he felt that the movement was ill-timed and poorly organized.
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- By 1879, thousands of African American "exodusters" packed up and headed to new opportunities in Kansas.
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- The latter were were known as exodusters, referencing the biblical flight from Egypt, because they fled the racism of the South, with most headed to Kansas from Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.