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Title: Shacks
Creator: Lowe, Ernest, 1934-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960-12-20
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Ernest Lowe Photography Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
Description: Scope/Content: Immediately following World War II, thousands of Black sharecroppers migrated to California's Central Valley. Coming from places like Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, these migrants looked to escape the oppression of new-slavery tenant farming and the Jim Crow south.
Type: image
Form/Genre: Photographs
Identifier: 6900304
Language: English
eng
Subject: African American farmers
Place: Teviston (city); Tulare (county); California; United States
35°55′44″N 119°16′42″W
Relation: Teviston, a Black Okie Community
Provenance: Acquired from Ernest Lowe with support from the UC Merced Office of the Chancellor, 2020.

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