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In these new lands, men found work at Ford, their hands greasy and their shifts long, but their paychecks allowed them to send their children to schools with opportunities they’d never dreamed of in the Delta. In them, Black families built tight-knit communities, their churches and businesses thriving in a new world of industry and ambition, where the future finally felt like more than a dream.

Image: The Buckeye Steel Castings Company in Columbus, Ohio Ohio Historical Society

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