300 BLACKS WENT BACK TO AFRICA IN THIS SHIP IN 1896-HALF FROM ARKANSAS! ARKANSAS BE SMART IN 2012 AND COME BACK TO BLACK FREEDOM NOW!


ARKANSAS BLACKS WAITING TO GO TO AFRICA BY SHIP IN A CHURCH 1896-MORE BLACKS FROM ARKANSAS WHEN BACK DURING THIS PERIOD THAN ANY OTHER STATE!

BROTHER ISAIAH WASHINGTON WENT BACK TO AFRICA AND IS DOING SOMETHING TO HELP HIS ROOT COUNTRY SIERRE LEONE-HELP HIM AT reachonemillion.org

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Friday, December 10, 2010

Back To Africa

Other black Arkansans sought a more distant homeland overseas in Africa. In the 1880s and 1890s more Arkansans migrated to Liberia than from any other state. In 1891, the year of the Separate Coach Act and the Election Law, the American Colonization Society’s Arkansas applications for immigration to the African nation of Liberia peaked at more than 3,000 (out of a total African American population of 309,117 in 1890). According to historian Kenneth C. Barnes, of the 3,000 applications, approximately 600 black Arkansans emigrated—representing over one-third of black American immigrants to Africa between 1879 and 1899. Due to the high illiteracy rate of African Americans (55 per cent of Arkansas’s African American males in 1890 were illiterate), schoolteachers and preachers wrote many of the 3,000 applications for large groups. The 3,000 letters, therefore, represent a greater percentage of Arkansas’s 300,000+ African Americans. These migrations and desires to leave Arkansas are telling evidence of rural and urban unrest in the state’s black communities.

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