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Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.) Search this
Date:
February 5, 1987
20th century
Category:
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes:
Smithsonian Year 1987. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, p. 127-128.
Smithsonian Year 1987 Supplement; Chronology and Appendixes. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, p. 14.
Summary:
"Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940" opens at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit chronicles the movement of more than one million Afro-American from the farms of the rural South to the cities of the urban North, and how this restructured American society.
