Federal land giveaways excluded black Americans while enriching white settlers

Evidence

Those were Tommie Moss’s last words before his lynching. And black Americans should have found greener pastures out west because the federal government was giving land away. While they struggled to buy land, the federal government was helping white citizens and white immigrants who would soon become citizens acquire land through the Homestead Act. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 327

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Indianapolis institutions and suburbs occupy land taken from Black families and Native nations — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 39