The historical migration from black to white affected African-American history at its most basic level: by making heroes disappear. Eighty-five years ago Dr. Carter G. Woodson started Negro ...

Trains made the Great Migration possible. ... Goodwin appears in a black-and-white photo from the early 1940s among the officers of the union's Washington Division.

The friendship between the Black Henrys and the White Henrys was done. My parents never understood that they had played a role in a dramatic social movement, never even heard of the Great Migration.

The trend is a reversal of the Great Migration, which saw anywhere from 5 to 6.5 million Black people leave the South searching for political and economic opportunities in the North and Midwest ...

Those who study black history will see the historical parallel between the conditions that inspired the mass digital migration we see today and The Great Migration (1910–1970), when millions of ...

Even today, the student body at Xavier University in New Orleans reflects the Great Migration, the exodus of millions of African-Americans from Louisiana and other Deep South states between 1915 ...

The Great Migration and Black Representation in Congress. Matthew Wasniewski and Farar Elliott, historians at the House of Representatives, talked about the Great Migration and the recruitment of ...

The Great Migration is after the Civil War, coming into the 20th century, when you have over a billion Black people migrating out of the South into, primarily, cities in the North. - Mm-hmm.

In it, I urged Black people to reverse the Great Migration, in which millions of Black people relocated, largely from the rural South to cities in the North and West, during the 20th century. For ...

But this ultimately led to the Great Migration and the killing of over 2,000 Black people by the Ku Klux Klan just during the brief Reconstruction period. Nearly 6,500 were killed by the 1950s.