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Those trains heading north carried those who had toiled in the Delta fields for decades, their belongings packed into battered suitcases and cardboard boxes. For the Black families leaving, the journey was both a rupture and a rebirth, a departure from the familiar rhythm of the fields for the uncertain promise of Northern cities.

Image: Lange, Dorothea Lange, On MS Hwy 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale. Black American family being moved from AR to MS. 1938. June.

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