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WHEREAS, We see that we cannot get our rights here in the midst of this class of uncompromising oppressors of our race, and since . . . the State can oppress and abridge our privileges as citizens of the State, and that there is no law of the United States to protect us from said abridgement and oppression; therefore Resolved, That we recommend to our race throughout the State to organize themselves into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided our condition is not bettered by the authorities of the State.
- Reported in the Topeka Daily Capital, May 23, 1879
This resolution was passed by delegates who met to discuss the plight of which group of people?
Irish immigrants facing nativist policies
African Americans who became the Exodusters
Chinese workers attracted by the Gold Rush
Native Americans forced off their ancestral lands
WHEREAS, We see that we cannot get our rights here in the midst of this class of uncompromising oppressors of our race, and since . . . the State can oppress and abridge our privileges as citizens of the State, and that there is no law of the United States to protect us from said abridgement and oppression; therefore Resolved, That we recommend to our race throughout the State to organize themselves into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided our condition is not bettered by the authorities of the State.
- Reported in the Topeka Daily Capital, May 23, 1879
This resolution was passed by delegates who met to discuss the plight of which group of people?
Irish immigrants facing nativist policies
African Americans who became the Exodusters
Chinese workers attracted by the Gold Rush
Native Americans forced off their ancestral lands
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African Americans who became the Exodusters
Explanation: The 1879 Topeka report and call to form emigration societies refers to Black southerners leaving oppressive conditions after Reconstruction — the Exoduster movement to Kansas.
Explanation: The 1879 Topeka report and call to form emigration societies refers to Black southerners leaving oppressive conditions after Reconstruction — the Exoduster movement to Kansas.
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