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Black Settlement of the West

Black Settlement of the West. By 1890, at least half a million blacks lived in TX and OK. After the Homestead Act of 1862 many blacks moved to KS, NE and the territories of Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah African American towns communities formed in Kansas and Oklahoma

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Black Settlement of the West

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  1. Black Settlement of the West • By 1890, at least half a million blacks lived in TX and OK. • After the Homestead Act of 1862 many blacks moved to KS, NE and the territories of Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah • African American towns communities formed in Kansas and Oklahoma • Local officials were elected in the towns

  2. 24th Infantry on Patrol at Yosemite, 1898

  3. Discrimination in the West • Jim Crow laws were in effect • Even for soliders • African American troops continued to be segregated on posts located in the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippines. • Most were relegated to labor and service battalions • In 1941 there were only five Black officers in the regular army

  4. Buffalo Soldier Sites on the Presidio

  5. Medal of Honor • 23 African Americans earned the MOH during the Civil War • 18 Buffalo Soldiers during the Western campaigns • Including several Seminole Negros • awarded to troops for service in • the Spanish American War

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