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  • Subject is exactly "Race relations--Vermont"

Sleeping on train

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A black boy and girl sleep on a train, probably as they are heading home to NYC.

Arriving girl with host family

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

Black children arriving in Vermont

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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

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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…