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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF34- 040823-D]
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Jack Delano
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| Travel Preparations |
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During the second Great Migration, many Southerners traveled by car or bus, instead of train as their counterparts had done in the 1920s. The train, which had been highly symbolic of the Great Migration, and inspired many blues songs, was no longer the only means of transportation to the North, the Midwest, and the West. Migrants in Old Trap, North Carolina, repair their car in preparation for travel to New Jersey.
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| Image ID: | 1216402 |
Title: | Migrants repairing motor before leaving Old Trap, North Carolina, for New Jersey, July 1940. |
Source: | Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection. |
Name: | Delano, Jack () - Photographer |
Depicted: | July 1940 |
Location: | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF34- 040823-D] |
Subjects: | African American men |
| African Americans -- North Carolina |
| Automobiles |
| Camden County (N.C.) |
| Motor vehicles -- Maintenance and repair |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans |
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Keywords: | Automobiles |
| Great Migration, 1940-1970 |
| New Jersey |
| North Carolina |
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