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Mexico Independence
Mexico declared its indepence from Spain meaning abolishing slavery and guaranteeing full citizenship to everyone , even colored. -
Black Relocated
The first numbers of African Americans to enter north Texas did not by choice. Between 1830 and 1850, nearly 70,000 Native Americans were forcibly relocated from the Old South to Indian Territory. -
3rd Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color
The assembly looked for places to migrate to, first they were gonna go to a colonization of West Africa but they choose Mexican Texas instead. -
Texas Revolutionaries
Texas Revolutionaries crushed the dreams of black of being free when Texas transformed the new Republic of Texas into a vast slaveholding empire in 1836. -
Gold Rush
California state's gold rush, which began in 1848, had migration from throughout the eastern United States. Between 1850 and 1860, 4,000 African Americans reached California. Half of that number settled in San Francisco and Sacramento, creating the first English-speaking black urban communities in the Far West. -
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Territory became another major area for African-American migration. It was created in 1866 out of the western half of the original Indian Territory on land originally for settlement by Native Americans. The white settlers persuaded the federal government to further reduce Indian lands, and open the surplus to homesteaders. -
Kansas
Between 1870 and 1890, about 30,000 migrants settled in the state. Kansas was the closest western state to the Old South that allowed blacks to homestead in the 1870s, Also it, became known for land-hungry newcomers from Missouri, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as Deep South states as Louisiana and Mississippi. -
Moving Further West
By the end of the nineteenth century, African Americans had established a number of agricultural communities in Dakota Territory and in Nebraska. Two hundred former Tennesseans homesteaded in Harlan County, -
To the Cities
