Louise E. Jefferson (b. 1908 in Washington, DC; d. 2002 b. in Litchfield, CT) was an artist, illustrator, photographer, author, cartographer, and one of the founders of the Harlem Artists Guild. She was the artistic director of Friendship Press, the publishing branch for the National Council of Churches. Created around the end of World War II, Uprooted People of the USA (1945) charts the mass movement and dislocation of people across the United States, deliberately or by force, due to factors such as the search for work, the “Japanese Relocation Centers,” and “Mexican Migration.” Using the presumed objectivity of the cartographic format, Jefferson manifests an imaginary picture of a country that had yet to extend civil rights to all its people. that had yet to extend civil rights to all its people.
