Effie Neal Jones

Effie Neal Jones, was a civil rights activist, food services provider, and counselor for the Four County Head Start Program in Laurinburg, North Carolina. In 1940 Mrs. Jones married Mr. Forest Jones, she was the daughter of Colonel and Bertha Bouldin, of Maxton, North Carolina.

Mrs. Jones, born in Fairmont, North Carolina, received her education from the Public Schools of Robeson County, North Carolina. A selfmade woman, she had very little formal school training. At age 14, she assumed all the motherly duties for hersiblings, after their mothers death. Effie and her siblings worked alongside their father as sharecroppers In 1946 Mrs. Jones, like many other blacks of the time period, was a member of the Great Migration . During the Great Migration of 19161930, over one million blacks moved from the south to the north in search of better lives. It is conservatively estimated that 400,000 left the South during the twoyear period of 19161918 to take advantage of a labor shortage created in the wake of the First World War. Mrs. Jones migrated north to escape racial discrimination, and poverty. She sought employment opportunities and became a source of income for her sharecropper parents and her children. Reluctantly, she commuted between North Carolina and Ne

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