The tens of thousands of African Americans who fled the rising racial violence of the South after the end of reconstruction were called

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Exodusters were African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. This migration was a reaction to conditions in the South, including the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the rollback of Reconstruction-era gains for African Americans.

The Tens of Thousands of African Americans Who Fled the Rising