The Black American West Museum boasts more than 35,000 artifacts. When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862, the West loomed larger than ever as a land of opportunity for Americans, many of whom were black. Abolition and the end of the Civil War hadn’t put an end to racial persecution, of course, …
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