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The Great Migration
A lynching announcement from New Orleans, 1919.

A lynching announcement from New Orleans, 1919.

Citation Information
“Lynching announcements,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/e938f4ab14615ef638ddd39417f0db7a.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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A lynching announcement from New Orleans, 1919.
An excerpt from an 1895 printing of “Why is the Negro Lynched?” one of the final essays written by Frederick Douglass before his death.
An excerpt from The Negro: The Southerner’s Problem by Thomas Nelson Page, 1910.
A photograph of a Jim Crow rail car “for Negroes only,” Fayetteville, NC, 1929.
Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, an oil painting by Earle Richardson, 1934.
Cotton sharecroppers in Georgia in a photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1937.
A painting of the Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence, 1917.
A map of the migration patterns of African Americans from 1900 to 1929.
An excerpt from Negro Migration in 1916-1917, a report by the U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Negro Economics, 1919.
An excerpt from A Century of Negro Migration by Carter G. Woodson, 1918.
A photograph of an African American family arriving in Chicago after migrating from the rural South, 1922.
An excerpt from The Industrial Condition of the Negro in the North, 1906.
A 1922 photograph by Carter G. Woodson captioned “A result of the migration. A Negro teacher with pupils of both races.”
A 1922 photograph from Chicago captioned “Negro women employed on power machines in a large apron factory.”
An excerpt from Chicago Race Riots, a 1919 analysis of the race riots in Chicago during the “Red Summer.”

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