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  • Subject is exactly "Race relations--New York--Harlem"

Rev. Low seeks housing for Negro children

LowSeeksHousing.pdf
Newspaper article about Rev. Low visiting Bennington county seeking housing for visiting African American children. According to later articles, he ultimately had more hosts than children.

100 Negro children arrive here in tolerance experiment

HarlemChildrenArrive.pdf
Newspaper article about arrive of Black American kids from Harlem in Vermont as part of Rev. Ritchie Low’s “Vermont Plan” experiment

Sleeping on train

1946-9-KidsSleeping.jpg
A black boy and girl sleep on a train, probably as they are heading home to NYC.

Saying good-bye

1946-8-RevLowAndWomen.jpg
Rev. Ritchie Low, organizer of the two-week visit by black children to Vermont, says good-bye to two Black, female organizers, probably Laura Thomas and Anna Newsome, who stayed in Vermont with the children.

Watch your step!

1946-7-LeavingVT.jpg
An African American woman gives instructions to a white man as a railroad conductor and a black boy listen as the group leaves Vermont.

Boys in the living room

1946-6-VisitingInLR.jpg
Two African American boys share a relaxing moment with their hosts on a Vermont farm.

In the barn

1946-5-InTheBarn.jpg
Two black boys help a Vermont farmer with a calf in a barn.

Boys on the farm

1946-4-HayWagon.jpg
Two African American boys ride on a hay wagon at a Vermont farm.

Arriving girl with host family

1946-3-WalkingToCar.jpg
A young African American girl is escorted to a car outside of the Burlington train station by her host family.

Arrival in Vermont

1946-2-YoungGirl.jpg
A young black girl looks up as a white woman reads a name tag on her coat.

Black children arriving in Vermont

1946-1-TrainStation.jpg
African American children from Harlem arriving at the Burlington Railroad station in Vermont, July 1946. According to a newspaper article said that children were placed in homes from Wilmington to Newport.

Vermont pastor brings Harlem kids to Vermont in 1946

VermontLifeVol3No3Spring1949.pdf
Vermont Life article about Vergennes, Vermont, pastor Ritchie Low, and his program to bring Black children from a Harlem, New York, church for a stay with white families in Vermont in 1946. This article celebrates Vermont's tolerance of racial…