This photo from the exhibit “Journey Stories” shows a girl with her family during a migration from Florida to New Jersey in 1940. Black families traveled north during the Great Migration any way they could: on foot, by car, by train and even by packet boat. If by car, it was important to know safe places to stop along the way.  (Library of Congress/ Smithsonian photo)

Today’s featured event:’

CHANDLER – See the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit “Journey Stories” at the Museum of Pioneer History, 717 Manvel Ave.…

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