“What makes The Great Migration so important in the larger ... It reveals to us the ways in which African American history is ...

I addressed the familiar themes of the origins of that great document ... After each migration, the newcomers created new understandings of the African-American experience and new definitions ...

From 1920 to 1930, the African American population exploded in Chicago, increasing from 109,458 to 233,903 residents in just a decade. The Great Migration of people was accompanied by a musical ...

The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-ND ...

Many African American entrepreneurs who participated in the Great Migration questioned whether they could experience enduring upward mobility through business if they stayed in the South.

From 1915, social injustice, poverty and fear drove half a million African Americans from the South to the North, in what was called The Great Migration. In the North, African Americans had to ...

African American travelers had good reason to worry ... After millions of African Americans moved to Northern cities during the Great Migration, many black families would return to the South ...

The 48 pages of historic Black American photographs and quotations tell the little-known story of how the 1924-65 period became the greatest era ever of African American economic progress.