Marquette – In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Valerie Bradley-Holliday, Ph.D., will present her research about the Elmwood community in the Upper Peninsula on Monday, January 17 at 7 p.m. in the Shiras Room of the Peter White Public Library.
Bradley-Holliday, whose specialty is social psychology, has been researching the African-American homesteaders of Elmwood, which was located in Iron County near the Paint River.
Around 1926, African-American individuals and families started homesteads in the U.P., when more than 1.5 million people moved north in the “The Great Migration.” Many African-Americans left southern states to escape the racism of tenant farming, sharecropping, peonage, and violence during the agricultural depression.
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