On this day, 200 Black Americans departed from Savannah, Georgia, to Liberia in West Africa. Motivated by a desire for self-determination and freedom from racial oppression in the United States, this group joined a broader Back-to-Africa movement. The migration reflected growing frustrations with Jim Crow laws and racial violence, as well as a hope for building new lives in a nation founded by formerly enslaved African Americans.
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