Black Homesteaders In The Great Plains
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Black Homesteaders In The Great Plains
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Author : Richard Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Black Homesteaders In The Great Plains written by Richard Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with African American farmers categories.
The First Migrants
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Author : Richard Edwards
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
The First Migrants written by Richard Edwards and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
"The Homesteading Project, University of Nebraska."--Title page.
The First Migrants
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Author : Richard Edwards
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
The First Migrants written by Richard Edwards and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one Nicodemus descendant, they found "a place they could experience real freedom," though in a racist society that freedom could never be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader communities and the several themes that characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders' descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom--and their greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.
Great Plains Homesteaders
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Author : Richard Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Bison Books
Release Date : 2024
Great Plains Homesteaders written by Richard Edwards and has been published by Bison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country's successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers.
African Americans On The Great Plains
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Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2009-10-01
African Americans On The Great Plains written by Bruce A. Glasrud and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence?let alone importance?of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history. ø Originally published over the span of twenty-five years in Great Plains Quarterly, the essays collected here describe the part African Americans played in the frontier army and as homesteaders, community builders, and activists. The authors address race relations, discrimination, and violence. They tell of the struggle for civil rights and against Jim Crow, and they examine African American cultural growth and contributions as well as economic and political aspects of black life on the Great Plains. From individuals such as ?Pap? Singleton, Era Bell Thompson, Aaron Douglas, and Alphonso Trent; to incidents at Fort Hays, Brownsville, and Topeka; to defining moments in government, education, and the arts?this collection offers the first comprehensive overview of the black experience on the Plains.
Women Of The Northern Plains
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Author : Barbara Handy-Marchello
language : en
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Release Date : 2005
Women Of The Northern Plains written by Barbara Handy-Marchello and has been published by Minnesota Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Winner of the 2006 Caroline Bancroft History Prize "Impressively researched and highly readable, Barbara Handy-Marchello's analysis of North Dakota farm women's roles will become the standard by which other works on the subject will be judged." Paula M. Nelson, author of The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello details the hopes and fears, the challenges and successes of these women--from the Great Dakota Boom of the 1870s and '80s to the impending depression and drought of the 1930s. Women of the frontier willingly faced drudgery and loneliness, cramped and unconventional living quarters, the threat of prairie fires and fierce blizzards, and the isolation of homesteads located miles from the nearest neighbor. Despite these daunting realities, Dakota farm women cultivated communities among their distant neighbors, shared food and shelter with travelers, developed varied income sources, and raised large families, always keeping in sight the ultimate goal: to provide the next generation with rich, workable land. Enlivened by interviews with pioneer families as well as diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources, Women of the Northern Plains uncovers the significant and changing roles of Dakota farm women who were true partners to their husbands, their efforts marking the difference between success and failure for their families. Barbara Handy-Marchello is a history professor at the University of North Dakota. She has written articles on rural women and is the co-author of A History of the NDSU Seedstocks Project. She lives near Fargo, North Dakota.
Black Homesteaders Of The South
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Author : Bernice Alexander Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-24
Black Homesteaders Of The South written by Bernice Alexander Bennett and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-24 with History categories.
Meet the black men and women who toiled from sunup to sundown to live the American dream.
The First Migrants
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Author : Richard Edwards
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
The First Migrants written by Richard Edwards and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
"The First Migrants explores the narrative histories of Black homesteaders in the Great Plains and the larger themes which characterize their shared experiences"--
Visions Of Freedom On The Great Plains
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Author : Bertha W. Calloway
language : en
Publisher: Donning Company Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Visions Of Freedom On The Great Plains written by Bertha W. Calloway and has been published by Donning Company Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Windfall
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Author : Erika Bolstad
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Windfall written by Erika Bolstad and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land—and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich?