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May 12, 2016
The City of New Orleans carried black people out of the Jim Crow South into the North where they could find jobs and lead normal lives. Leaving friends, family and the only world they knew, Black people experienced both sorrow and excitement as they escaped their lives of poverty and indignities, looking forward to opportunities for education and meaningful work.