The First Migrants - by Richard Edwards & Jacob K Friefeld (Hardcover)

The First Migrants

- 2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 Spur Award Finalist 2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Honorable Mention for best book in Midwestern History The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom.
- About the Author: Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- 508 Pages
- History, African American