The Great Latino Migration to the American South
Photography
In 1999, journalist Paul Cuadros moved to Chatham County, North Carolina to report on the Latino Diaspora to the American South. Cuadros captured and documented the early years of the migration through writing and photography in Chatham County and other counties across North Carolina. He concentrated his photography on the lives of poultry-processing workers and their families as well as hog-processing, turkey-processing, and Christmas-tree workers. In February 2000, Cuadros documented the David Duke Anti-Immigrant Rally in Siler City, N.C., the first white supremacist-nativist rally of its kind in the South directed at Latino immigrants. The rally would go on to spark the nativist movement that impacted the Latino community for more than a decade.
Paul Cuadros' photography was donated to the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library under the title: The Paul Cuadros Photographic Collection. The 1,400 piece Collection is available free of charge to scholars and others for fair use.
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