How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West
During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African Americans migrated from the South to Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. One formerly enslaved man, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, convinced thousands to make the journey. The Black settlers were lured westward, in part, by the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal […]