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Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a Black American entrepreneur joined forces with a legendary spokesman for Black innovation to…
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Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you could say the soil was rich and the people were poor.  Matthew Raiford…
Oscar Micheaux History

He Wrote the Book – Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and made the movie; he was perhaps more than anyone, deserving of the title: The…
black woman homesteader history, african american woman homesteader history History

Black, Female, and Homesteader

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
It was tough to be black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of as a continuation—for African Americans—of…
The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteaders History

The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1, 1863, the Homestead Act went…
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Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car, that it would have been…
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A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…
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The Peanut Man: George Washington Carver

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
  "I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we…
History of American Homesteading Part 4 History

The History of American Homesteading, Part 4: Generous Fruits That Never Fail

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part3/ Johnny Cash (1932-2003) attracted myths like a big, square-shouldered magnet. It’s true that he was born in a clapped-out town in northeast Arkansas, that…
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