All of the following problems led African Americans to pursue settlement in Oklahoma except __________.

African Americans sought new communities in Oklahoma to escape segregation and discrimination in the South, and some also faced economic hardship in Kansas’s all-Black towns. Sharecropping was not prohibited in the South; it was a widespread system that often trapped Black farmers in debt. Therefore, “prohibition of sharecropping in the South” is the exception.

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