More than 100 works by 80 quilters, many of whom emigrated to the East Bay from the American South in the 1900s, are on exhibit in Berkeley starting June 8.

An estimated 6 million Black Americans left their homes permanently in the South in a mass movement that scholars call the Great Migration. Families settled in cities such as Los Angeles ...

Research volunteer Caroline S. O’Connell will share the story of Flossie Sinclair Furr, an African American school teacher who was part of the Great Migration in the early 20th century.

Pioneering African American historian Carter G. Woodson, father of Black History Month, pointed to the lack of business ...

and West Coast The second museum video described the Great Migration this way: “Between World War I and the 1970s, 6 million African Americans moved from the South to urban areas throughout the North, ...

“Black Gold: Stories Untold” is exhibiting June 6 – Nov. 22, at the Fort Point National Historic Site, 201 Marine Dr. Sharon ...

Her family’s move to Kansas was a precursor to the Great Exodus, the first voluntary mass migration of African Americans from the South to what we now call the Midwest, including Kansas ...

The movie is based on the believable theory that music or especially gifted musicians can conjure up magic through their ...

(CBS DETROIT) — Detroit has one of the largest African American populations. A new documentary will explore the Great Migration, which played a key role in the city's history. CBS News Detroit ...

This photo provided by the Museum of Modern Art shows a panel of The Great Migration series by African-American artist Jacob Lawrence titled Another of the social causes of the migrants ...

This Great Migration of African Americans and Latinos to Detroit endures as a remarkable story about resilience and entrepreneurial spirit that lives in people like me. My own grandparents fled ...

through artifacts from the Great Migration, when the city’s African American population swelled as industrial jobs in the area became plentiful. African masks and artifacts line the walls of the ...