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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF33- 012345-M1]
Lee Russell

The South Central States

Many of the migrants leaving the South - particularly those who migrated to the Western states - were from South Central states such as Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Between 1940 and 1950, this region experienced an emigration of African Americans that was almost three times greater than that of the previous decade. Oklahoma lost more than 70,000 people.

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Image ID:	1216407
Title:	Negroes waiting at streetcar terminal for cars, Oklahoma, July 1939.
Source:	Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection.
Name:	Lee, Russell (1903- ) - Photographer
Depicted:	July 1939
Location:	Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF33- 012345-M1]
Subjects:	African American girls
	African American men
	African Americans -- Oklahoma
	African American women
	Oklahoma City (Okla.)
	Terminals (Transportation)

Keywords:	Arkansas
	Children - United States
	Great Migration, 1940-1970 - Statistics
	Louisiana
	Oklahoma
	Texas
	Women - United States