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To escape the fear of being alone: The dismantling of Freedmen’s Communities in Texas
Richardson, Kaysey
Richardson, Kaysey
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2021-12
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This research explores the nexus of the removal of Black communities, beautification, and the growth of cities and highways from the perspective of African American communities within the state of Texas. Following the Civil War, African Americans across the nation faced discrimination, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws preventing them from basic rights such as education and political participation. While this remains the case, there was a mass migration of freed African Americans that were able to form communities that thrived for over fifty years and were able to avoid much of this discrimination. This thesis seeks to tell the stories of Black communities that formed following the Civil War in Texas that were called Freedmen’s Communities and further argues that due to beautification and urbanization in white surrounding cities, these Freedmen’s Communities were dismantled, relocated, and ultimately destroyed.
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Thesis (M.A.)-- Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History
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