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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: 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: Overview

DeKalb Migration Story Except for Native Americans, DeKalb County residents’ families have emigrated from other...

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Terrance Gray “Young Black Wishes” and “American Gothic_Breaking Ground

About the work: American Gothic_ Breaking Ground is styled after Grant Wood’s work American Gothic. Thinking...

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Community: Local Latinx Culture

When migrant Latinx families permanently settled in DeKalb County, they were not formally segregated like...

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Hope: Latino Migration Story

A second wave of migration in DeKalb County started in the 1960s. This group was...