Category: African American History

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Double Take: A Research Journey to 1941 Chicago

February 14, 2020

Every research journey starts with a question! Just such a question sparked this entry of Double Take, the occasional series where we dig a little deeper into an image in our collections. This photo of a young African American boy in the Farm Security Administration (FSA) Collection sent me on a journey 79 years in …

Posted in: African American History, Photographs, Series: Double Take

New Guide – Great Migration: Finding Pictures

January 10, 2020

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

The Prints & Photographs Division regularly receives questions about how to find pictures related to the Great Migration – when millions of African Americans, many of whom lived in the rural American South, permanently relocated to cities to the north and west. These individuals had many reasons for leaving their homes, but they were spurred …

Posted in: African American History, Photographs

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