The document summarizes Briana Ryan's presentation on the literature about African Americans in the West. It outlines three waves of literature on the topic from the Civil Rights Movement to 2009. The first wave included works on civil rights and the "Exodusters" who migrated to Kansas after the Civil War. The second wave examined racial tensions and the concept of a racial frontier. The third wave covered African American women's experiences and the St. Louis African American community.

1. Briana Ryan
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE WEST:
THE LITERATURE

2. MY PRESENTATION:
1. My Thesis.
2. Background.
3. Literature.
4. Conclusion.

3. MY THESIS
I. II. III.

4. BACKGROUND

5. FIRST WAVE OF LITERATURE
Civil Rights
Movement
1952-1968
The Black
West
1973
Exodusters
1976

6. SECOND WAVE OF LITERATURE
Racial Tensions
Early 1990s
Racial Frontier
1998
African Americans
on the Western
Frontier
1998

7. THIRD WAVE OF LITERATURE
African American
Women Confront
the West
2005
St. Louis African
American
Community and the
Exodusters
2007
African Americans in
the West
2009

8. CONCLUSION

9. SOURCES
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wild-west/.
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