Our 20th Century African American Photograph archive features family photographs, African American communities, and African Businesses from 1900 to 1970.
Full-length portrait of Beatrice Parker, Eddie Walton Batchelor, and Mary Batchelor.
This photo was taken of Karen Batchelor's paternal grandparents, Beatrice Parker and Eddie Walton Batchelor with their daughter Mary Batchelor on the day they arrived in Detroit as part of the Great Migration of Blacks from the South.
The promise of a job in Detroit's auto factories motivated Eddie and Beatrice to leave Harris County, Georgia and head North. The picture was taken by an unknown photographer at the station in Detroit when they got off the train from Georgia and faced a new life.
Portrait of Callie White Sheffey (4 August 1889-January 1967), Elnora Vivian Sheffey (30 November 1896-11 February 1998) Janie B. Sheffey (8 December 1897-28 December 1925).
The Sheffey family was born and raised in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, United States.
Callie White Sheffey was married first to William "Willie" Tolton Turner and later to John Alfred Floyd in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.
Elnora V. Sheffey married Charles Henderson Clark in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.
Janie B. Sheffey married Harold Lee Crockett in Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.
Photograph of Gladys Adams Ford Buffington and two others in front of business.
Gladys Adams Ford Buffington born 4 February 1924 in Waterford, Marshall County, Mississippi to Daniel David Adams (1885-1947) and Ethel Echols (1893-1982). She married Robert Ford and, later, Lawrence T. Buffington (son of John and Ida Walker Buffington). Gladys and Lawrence made their home in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
