The Exodusters
On this day in Labor History the year was 1879.
On this day in Labor History the year was 1879.
A steamship named the Colorado, docked in St. Louis.
On board were black migrant workers on their way to Kansas in search of jobs and a better life.
They were the first arrivals in what became a wave of black migration out of the US South. Known as the “Exodusters,” nearly 20,000 black workers and their famil…
