Slideshow narrated by Ernest Lowe, featuring photographs of the Beaver family in the rural community of Teviston, California in the 1960s. The Beavers were among the thousands of Black sharecroppers that migrated to California's Central Valley immediately following World War II from places like Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, looking to escape the oppression of new-slavery tenant farming and the Jim Crow south.
Ernest Lowe studied photography in the late 50's with the noted social documentarian, John Collier Jr, and in 1959, joined the staff of Pacifica radio station KPFA. His photographs document the lives and struggles of the farm-working communities in California's Central Valley.
The Ernest Lowe Photography Collection contains more than 2,700 images that have been digitized and are freely available online: [ Ссылка ]
