{"title":"Black Homesteading in Southern New Mexico: An Undertold Story","authors":"Richard V. Adkisson","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2023.a927243","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The role of African Americans in the homesteading movement is an emerging topic in US history. This article explores an episode of African American homesteading near Las Cruces, New Mexico, from the late 1920s through the 1930s. In this period, at least twenty-six African American families successfully homesteaded some 23,000 acres of desert land, largely under the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916. Local knowledge about this homesteading episode exists but is limited and is somewhat overshadowed by other Black homesteading and community-building episodes in the region. The purpose here is to document the episode to bring it into the historical record and provide a foundation for others who might be interested in exploring the topic further.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Great Plains Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2023.a927243","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of African Americans in the homesteading movement is an emerging topic in US history. This article explores an episode of African American homesteading near Las Cruces, New Mexico, from the late 1920s through the 1930s. In this period, at least twenty-six African American families successfully homesteaded some 23,000 acres of desert land, largely under the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916. Local knowledge about this homesteading episode exists but is limited and is somewhat overshadowed by other Black homesteading and community-building episodes in the region. The purpose here is to document the episode to bring it into the historical record and provide a foundation for others who might be interested in exploring the topic further.
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In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region."
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