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 ...

“African Americans were literally running for their lives,” Gadsden said. “What makes The Great Migration so important in the larger history of African Americans and the United States in ...

Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s.

There's a Great Digital Migration happening on the ... Ashon Crawley, a professor of religious studies and African American ...

between 10,000 and 12,000 African American people left the south for East St. Louis, Illinois in 1916 and 1917 as part of the Great Migration. Many white citizens of East St. Louis, which had ...

Ryan Coogler says the film's "seed" came from his late Uncle James, who spoke of Mississippi only while listening to blues.

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 ...

CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million ... into one particular beginning and endpoint of Black American migration: the Gulf South and Chicagoland. Simultaneously, the ...

Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s. Yet, the ...