Before the Civil War, the vast majority (approximately 90 percent) of African Americans lived in the South. Though some former slaves moved away from the South after the war, most of the ...

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, ...

From 1920 to 1930, the African American population exploded in Chicago, increasing from 109,458 to 233,903 residents in just a decade. The Great Migration of people was accompanied by a musical ...

For a more holistic approach, advocates seek to also look at the countries left behind and their societies.When it comes to ...

The Braceville African American Heritage Museum in collaboration with the Braceville Community Foundation is holding a ...

It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been ...

From 1915, social injustice, poverty and fear drove half a million African Americans from the South to the North, in what was called The Great Migration. In the North, African Americans had to ...