Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, neg #:
Z-3035.
By the Great Depression, African American migration West had increased a great deal, but it was largely to the urban centers.
These men are in a Denver soup kitchen for unemployed men sometime in the 1920s.
However, many African Americans were also among the migrant farm laborers that traveled throughout the west following the crops. The woman in the center of this image was working as a pea picker for a labor contractor in Nampa, Idaho in June 1941.
Photo by Russell Lee. Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress .
These young men were photographed in Waco Texas in November, 1939.
Photo by Russell Lee. Farm Security Administration, Library of Congress, neg #: LC-USF33-012485-M2.
But there were also gains made by African Americans during the Depression...NEXT
