by
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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2025
It's 1889, barely 25 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land they don't get to own. So when Will and his father hear about an upcoming land rush, they set out from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to the place where land is free.
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