exodus+jjs

=Exodus=
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Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws in the South made it difficult for African Americans to get ahead because employers would much rather hire whites. It was also difficult for them to buy land to cultivate because they couldn't get enough money because of the segregations. So in 1878 many blacks began to migrate west to Kansas where there was cheap land. There were also no Jim Crow Laws to hold the Africans Americans down. Within months thousands had migrated to Kansas, which became known as the Exodus. In the 1880s tens of thousands of acres were purchased by African Americans in Kansas.

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