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, ...

After reconstruction, the transitional period immediately following the Civil War, a slow and steady stream of African Americans began leaving the South for the North and the West. A bigger ...

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

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 ...