7 Migrants

Black migrants and their vehicle in 1940

The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. From the 1910s through the 1960s, approximately six million Black citizens left the south for northern, midwestern and western states. Untitled photo, possibly related to: Group of Florida migrants on their way to
Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina, 1940. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Office of War Information Photograph Collection.

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Group of Florida migrants on their way to
Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina, 1940.