Talk:DeWitty, Nebraska
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Rjluna2 in topic AJC Article on Black homesteaders
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exoduster edit
Either this article is wrong in using the term Exoduster or the article on Exoduster is wrong... the article there talks about Kansas---not Nebraska and a period 30+ years prior to DeWitty. Could somebody confirm which is correct? or reconcile the descrepency? When I looked into it, it appears as if this article uses the term incorrectly.Balloonman 03:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- PS I would love to promote this as a DYK to the main page, but this potential factual discrepency makes me reluctant to do so. In order to make it to the main page, it needs some sort of citation ASAP.Balloonman 04:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Further investigation, Exoduster was clearly a short period during the 1870's that ended in 1881. The online source provided was of questionable reliability, but I did find a more reliable source stating the DeWitty was the largest and most permanent homestead in Nebraska... I've used that to make a proposal for a DYK. (since I reworked it, I can't promote it.)Balloonman 04:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
AJC Article on Black homesteaders edit
Here is an article from Atlanta Journal Constitution on Black History Month at In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders that discuss about DeWitty, Nebraska. Rjluna2 (talk) 16:09, 27 February 2021 (UTC)