Hope – the Sims family, Sycamore
The Sims family is another example of a Sycamore Great Migration story. The story starts...
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Hope: Booker T. Washington comes to DeKalb
On January 29, 1899 Booker T. Washington came to DeKalb and spoke to a large...
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Hope: Frederick Douglass comes to Sycamore
Frederick Douglass came to Sycamore in 1870 and spoke at Wilkin’s Hall. The New York...
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Hope: Black Resort Community in Kirkland
Three newspaper articles cover a story about how a group of wealthy Blacks from St....
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Hope: Securing a Bank Loan
There are two examples of the local bank, The National Bank & Trust Company, working...
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Hope: Mexicans at Sycamore Preserve Works
There are a few articles from the 1940s and 1950s about people from Mexico coming...
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Hope: Migrant Workers in DeKalb County, 1960s
The DeKalb County Journal had several articles in the late 1960s about migrant workers. The...
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Hope: Latino Migration Story, using census records
While the larger trend of Latinos coming to DeKalb County starts in the 1960s, there...
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Hope: North Grove One-Room School Connection
North Grove School was a one-room schoolhouse near where the Beard family lived (see Henry...
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