The Great Migration of African Americans from Putnam Co. GA to Lincoln Co. NC (1920-1930)

Compiled and Edited by Herbert W. Stanford III 28 January 2022 By 1920, for African-Americans in the South, the optimism of the Reconstruction era had turned into 30 years of Jim Crow disenfranchisement and race-based violence.  To escape this terror and to hopefully find a better life, the “Great Migration”

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