African Immigration To Texas
By: Nate Fernandes
Period Three...Immigration Group: African Americans
African Push factors
African Pull Factors
African Culture
FUN FACTS
2. Robert Lemmons was an African American Rancher who needed more horses ,but the only ones he could find were wild mustangs which were near impossible to catch. So he followed a group of them around for weeks without bathing so he would lose his "human" smell and then he could naturally walk into the herd and not have them all run away. Next he led them all into an enclosed canyon on the shape of a box were tamed them.
3. Africa is the most central continent with both the equator and the Prime meridian crossing through it.
4. Four of the five fastest land animals live in Africa : the Cheetah, the Wildebeest, the Lion, and the Thompson's gazelle all of these animals can run over fifty mph 9
(the fifth one is the Pronghorn Antelope)
5. Black slaves in texas did not receive their freedom until eighteen sixty-five
African American affects on us
Is Texas better of because of them?
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DEATH
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Acknowledgments
And My mom helped with my getting an A