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...