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Georgia native returns home after decades of migration
Jerry Hardee and his wife Wyonnie move back to Georgia from Chicago amid a reversing migration of Black residents from the North to the South. A Census Bureau report shows Blacks increasingly living in Southern states as Hardee reflects on segregated schooling, scarce opportunity, and improved prospects for Black communities in the region.
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Valdosta
Jerry Hardee
Georgia
Hardee
Chicago
Valdosta State College
Wyonnie
Census Bureau
South
New York
North
Brunswick
C.S. Hardee
Macedonia
Clark College
Atlanta
Jerry
Wyonnie Hardee