Zoë Charlton, "Permanent Change of Station" (2022) in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration at the Chicago Cultural Center (photo Patrick L. Pyszka, City of Chicago) CHICAGO — ...

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The Great Migration was a movement of more than 5 million Black Americans who moved from the rural South to the urban North between 1910 and 1970. Many people landed in Chicago.

Cost-of-living pressures and sunnier climates encouraged many Americans to pack up house last year. Here's where they went.

Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s ...

Jacob Lawrence, “Panel 3” (1940–41) (all images courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York) I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, ...

About 6 million Black people left the South in the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970. A four-part documentary from Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the Great Migration of the 20th century while also ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This four-parter from Henry Louis Gates Jr. covers a Great Migration which remains ongoing — the final episode, "Coming to America," is about the migration of African and Caribbean ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) Black businesses were essential ...