Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee, to an Arkansas plantation, July 1937. The New York Public Library.
Between 1940 and 1947, over 600,000 Southern African-American women migrated throughout the nation. Although many migrated within their home states, almost 40 percent of them ventured to new states.
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