The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban North
The Arthur family arrived at Chicago's Polk Street Depot on August 30, 1920, during the Great Migration.
African-American youths play basketball in Chicago's Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project in 1973.
The Hub is the retail heart of the South Bronx, New York City.
White tenants seeking to prevent Black people from moving into the Sojourner Truth Project in Detroit erected this sign, 1942
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Great Migration (African American)
…Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) responded to the violence with the Silent March. More than 10,000 African-American men and women demonstrated in Harlem, New York. Conflicts continued after World War I, and African-American labor activism continued. The late summer and autumn of 1919 came to be known…
Apartment buildings next to Morningside Park in Harlem
One of the paths in Morningside Park, which was constructed during the late 19th century
14 (right) and 16 (left) St. Nicholas Place, in Sugar Hill
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