Industrial jobs and wages, education, and improved racial relations helped to build a black middle class, though true integration was rarely reached. Many new arrivals went to Harlem in New York ...
A bigger exodus, known as the "Great Migration," began with World War ... Entrenched in poverty, sharecroppers began heading north for industrial jobs. Grinding poverty was not the only reason ...
A new documentary will explore the Great Migration, which played a key role in the city's history. CBS News Detroit spoke ...
David:Between the 1500s and the 1900s Britain experienced successive waves of migration ... money in the building of the Great Western Railway. So he becomes an industrial broker as well as ...