Missouri Humanities | S2 E2: Black Movement Part 1: The Exodusters

This episode serves as part one of a two part series about Black Movement. Our guest for this portion is Dr. Bryan Jack, a professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville and author of The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. The Exodusters were a group of Black migrants from the South that made the journey to Kansas by way of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in search of better opportunity post-Reconstruction. 

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