In the early 1940s, when African-Americans in the South and Southwest moved north and west in search of job opportunities at war-time factories, they packed their souls. As the Great Migration filled cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland and South Central in L.A., transplants from places such as Mississippi, Alabama and Texas longed for the Delt…
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