DeWitty, Nebraska — The Audacious Black Settlement They Tried to Erase

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DeWitty, Nebraska — The Audacious Black Settlement They Tried to Erase

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Long before Nebraska’s highways cut through the Sandhills, there was a place called DeWitty. Born from the 1904 Kinkaid Act, it was the largest and longest-lasting Black homesteader community in the state — a town built on grit, faith, and the audacity to survive where others wouldn’t dare.

This is the story of how formerly enslaved families and their descendants turned raw prairie into a thriving settlement… and how the land itself conspired to take it back.

I’m SpiritualAlkemist74, and I tell the untold stories they left out of the textbooks. Subscribe for more histories that refuse to be forgotten.