the great migration Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/the-great-migration Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Arkansas Migrants in the 1960s-1980s http://toursmaps.com/arkansas-migrants-1960s-1980s.html http://toursmaps.com/arkansas-migrants-1960s-1980s.html#respond Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:14:26 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203608 Though no longer picking cotton in the delta, Mexican workers continued to enter Arkansas during the 1960s and 1970s. Southwestern Arkansas became a way station for Mexican and Mexican migrant workers moving between Texas and the Midwest or the Atlantic Coast. In 1960 the Migrant Farm Labor Center opened on Highway 67 just west of Hope, later expanding under federal direction in response to growing national attention to the plight of migrant farmworkers. The Migrant Farm Labor Center processed tens of thousands of migrants every year (nearly 50,000 in 1971), but few went on to work or stay in Arkansas.

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