<P> Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century , as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1872 . It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War . The movement received substantial organizational support from prominent figures , Benjamin Singleton of Tennessee and Henry Adams of Louisiana . As many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas , Oklahoma and Colorado . </P>
<P> Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century , as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1872 . It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War . The movement received substantial organizational support from prominent figures , Benjamin Singleton of Tennessee and Henry Adams of Louisiana . As many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas , Oklahoma and Colorado . </P>
who migrated to kansas during the kansas exodus
who migrated to kansas during the kansas exodus
African Americans
African Americans