Great Migration Georgia to Milwaukee
It was October 1945. Eustace Griffin, a farmer from Georgia, and his wife loaded up in the 1938 4-door Oldsmobile Series F sedan. Their youngest c***d, 20 year-old Harry, was back home from serving in Second World War. They were heading up to Milwaukee where three of Harry’s older siblings had made their homes during this Great Migration of African-Americans leaving the rural, agrarian South for the industrialized North and Midwest.Eustace who was born in 1895 to a sharecropper was proud of...