Contains an article written on the African American exodus to Kansas to farm in the late 19th century.

A very brief review of what were the important ways people in the West made a living in the last half of the 19th century.

After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...