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 ...

The docuseries will explore pressures, both political and economic, that sparked the migration. According to Gates, Detroit's ...

There’s a sense of pride for many Americans in our identity as a melting pot. But until the early part of the 20th Century, ...

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 ...