The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, William Williams papers

Augustus F. Sherman

Although the black immigrant movement to the United States in the first half of the twentieth century had its roots in the Anglophone Caribbean, it also drew immigrants from elsewhere in the Caribbean. Most of this latter group came from Cuba; they were employed in the cigar industry in Florida. Others came from the Danish West Indies, which was acquired by the United States in 1917, and from the Dutch and French West Indies.