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Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor

   

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The mythical island of Willow Springs was settled in the early 1900s, around the same time this family photograph was taken.

The mythical island of Willow Springs was settled in the early 1900s,...

 After the Civil War, southern agricultural crops were not doing well, and many African-Americans, like the freed slaves pictured here, were out of work. Large numbers of African-Americans left the South for jobs in growing northern industries.

After the Civil War, southern agricultural crops were not doing well,...