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  • Subject is exactly "Railroad stations--Vermont--Burlington"

Saying good-bye

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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!

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

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.