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— Photo from the Johnson family

Church trip: Members of Pastor John Johnson’s congregation stand outside the church building in Albany, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, before boarding a bus to visit another church. John Johnson, a native of Shubuta, Mississippi, returned many times to his original hometown in the Jim Crow South to pick up and bring to the Northeast about 100 families, estimates his son, Sam Johnson. John Johnson is the tall and imposing figure near the back of this photo, in the rounded hat and beige coat.