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Photos: Black homesteaders
Historic images of Black homesteaders and the settlements they founded in the Western U.S. in the decades after the Civil War. Part of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Black History Month coverage.
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DeWitty, Neb.: Members of the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in DeWitty Neb. DeWitty was a Black homestead colony that began growing in 1904 with the Kinkaid Act, allowing individuals to claim 640 acres fo land in Nebraska's sand hills. (Solomon Butcher image provided by Descendants of DeWitty)
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