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

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, the United States was deeply segregated.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson, (New York: Random House, 2010), 640 pages. Some books make a big splash at the moment of publication ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

While the first large migration was a forced journey from Africa in bondage, voluntary migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly reshaped the nation. GREAT MIGRATIONS Extended ...

(upbeat music) - The African-American Great Migration was in fact one of the ... and many of them moved to Northern states, industrial cities in hope of finding a new life, finding employment ...

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 ...