AFRICAN-AMERICANS

EXODUSTERS THESIS

• African-Americans were the other pioneers of the american west.
• They made thier mark, as cowboys, explorers, trappers, lawmen,
• And pretty much everything someone could be in the "wild west"

JOBS

• Some other jobs were:
• School teacher
• Cavalrymen
• Saloonkeepers
• Outlaws

NAT LOVE

• Champion Roper of the Western Cattle Country
• Nat's family were slaves until the Civil war
• Nat was 15 at the time
• Later he headed out west where men can
• Ride free

NAT LOVE

• When Nat was 22 he entered a Fourth of July Rodeo
• He out roped and out shot the white men there
• "The assembled crowd called me 'Deadwood Dick' and
• Proclaimed me champion of the western cattle country"
• -Nat Love after rodeo

5 P'S

• Power: Going to the west allowed slaves freedom.
• Profit: Going to the west opened many job opportunities
• Property: going to the west allowed people the chance to own land

DRISCIMINATION

• Even though they were free
• And in the west, people of color
• Were still often killed for them being black or
• Chinese or even Mexican.

DISCRIMINATION

• Many groups still were after the minorities
• KKK were one of the main group that
• Lychned, beat, or shot, African-American