Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the ...

It took on new meaning with the migration. -I have seen this photograph a thousand times. In every book or essay about the Great Migration, you see this photograph. -There was a very tragic story ...

When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...