The Great Migration is one of the largest movements of people in human history, and one of the most important events to understand contemporary America. Between 1915 and 1970, 6 million African Americans left the South to seek freedom and economic opportunity in the industrial North. The shift wa...
This is one of the most important books I have read in the past 10 years. It describes the great migration of Black Americans from the South to the Northern Cities over several decades, ending in 1970. I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's and lived in many of these cities in the 1970's and 1980's a...
It was the year that the revolutions of the 1960s began to bear fruit and black children were entering white schools in the South without death threats or the need for the National Guard. The people from the South continued to go north in great waves because nobody told them the Migration was ove...