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 ...

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

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

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, the United States was deeply segregated.

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 ...