Great Migration

Why the New Great Migration Matters

January 8, 2024January 1, 2024 Beatrice J. Adams African Diaspora, Civil Rights Movement, Great Migration, Migration

In the recent documentary “South to Black Power,” Charles Blow reaffirms his previous call for a “Second Great Migration.” His

Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Ashley Everson #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, Great Migration, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s

Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part II

April 28, 2022April 27, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil War, Great Migration, Katrina, Memory, Politics

Yesterday, Black Perspectives published part I of a Summer Books preview, covering a select number of books published in April

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called

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