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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.
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Keywords

  1. African American Farmers
  2. African Americans

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