Social History for Every Classroom

Search

Social History for Every Classroom

menuAmerican Social History Project  ·    Center for Media and Learning

  • Historical Eras > Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913) (x)
  • Tag > Reconstruction (x)

We found 1 items that match your search

A Sharecropper Explains Why He Joined the Exodusters

John Solomon Lewis of Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote this letter on June 10, 1879. Lewis and his family were among thousands of African Americans known as "Exodusters" who escaped the harsh economic and racial realties of the Reconstruction South. The [...]

Tags: Exodusters, Reconstruction
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)

Narrow search by


Warning: Declaration of SolrSearchField::beforeSave() should be compatible with Omeka_Record_AbstractRecord::beforeSave($args) in /usr/home/herb/public_html/plugins/SolrSearch/models/SolrSearchField.php on line 0