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 ...

Feb. 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Wednesdays, Feb. 5 - 26 at 8 a.m. on KPBS 2. The series explores how a ...

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, ...

We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants’ selection and destination choices during the first decades of the “Great Migration” (1910-1930). We study both whites and ...

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants.

Between 1910 and 1970, approximately 6 million Black people left the American South for what they hoped would be a better future in the North in what’s known as the Great Migration. A new four-part ...

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 ...

Through a series of paintings, in The Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans who moved to the North in search for a better life. Lawrence's parents were among ...