Black Homesteaders on the Great Plains: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

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Career, Business & Finance, Community Events, History & Genealogy

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Teens
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The call of free land offered Black Americans a welcome reprieve from a cycle of poverty driven by sharecropping and racialized violence in the South. The Homestead Act of 1862 helped at least 3400 Black farmers build homes across the Great Plains. Learn from a park ranger how Black Americans gained life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through homesteading.