Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the identity of Black Americans." But this four-parter presses the case that it ...

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 ...

Stepping onto the platform at Michigan Central Station was stepping into a new chapter. For Black families leaving the Jim Crow South, Detroit was more than a destination. It was a declaration. They ...

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