| LC control no. | sh2021005683 |
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| Topical heading | Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 |
| Variant(s) | Great Black Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 |
| See also | African Americans--Migrations Migration, Internal--United States |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on the migration of African Americans from the South to the urban areas of the northern and western United States. |
| Found in | Work cat: Imani, B. Making our way home: the Great Migration and the Black American dream, 2020 (summary: Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America) Wilkerson, I. The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration, 2010 Diehl. Migrants keep coming, approx. 1936-1942, in Illinois Writers Project "Negro in Illinois" Digital Collection, via Chicago Public Library website, viewed June 8, 2021: p. 2 ("The Great Migration"; "But with the beginning of the World War the race flooded into the cities of the North, Chicago receiving tens of thousands. The migration was so heavy that the census of 1920 counted 109,458 Negroes in the great northern industrial center--an increase of 148.2 per cent, or of more than sixty-five thousand persons in ten years.") <https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/IllWriters/id/8502/rec/1> Race and ethnicity in America: from pre-contact to the present (online), v. 3, 2019, via Gale eBooks, viewed June 30, 2021: p. 93 ("The Great Migration"; "At the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of African Americans resided in the American rural South. From about 1915 to 1970, more than 6.5 million African Americans migrated from the American rural South to cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement called the Great Migration. African American tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and laborers fled the so-called Black Belt, escaping adverse socioeconomic and political conditions in search of better opportunities. The Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North started slowly after the Civil War (1861-1865) and increased dramatically by the second decade of the twentieth century. The migration of blacks declined considerably in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The flow resumed at even higher rates in the 1940s and 1950s, before slowing dramatically in the 1960s. By 1970, a near majority of African Americans lived in the North and the West, mostly in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Akron, Ohio...") Reich, S. A. The great Black migration: a historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic, 2016. Wilkerson, Isabel. The long-lasting legacy of the Great Migration, article in Smithsonian magazine, Sept. 2016, viewed online Aug. 8, 2021: (began as a rivulet of black families escaping Selma, Alabama, in the winter of 1916; before migration, 90 percent of all African-Americans lived in the South; when it was over in the 1970s, 47 percent of African-Americans lived in the North and West) Britannica online, Aug. 8, 2021: Great Migration (From 1916 to 1970, during this Great Migration, it is estimated that some six million black Southerners relocated to urban areas in the North and West.) |
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