Records in this topic cover migratory information and trends captured by various branches and agencies of the government, including employment and housing. There are also records reflecting cultural and social aspects of the lives of those who participated and were impacted by the Great Migration. Search the Catalog for Records relating to the Great Migration During the s it produced a revolutionary period of black artistic expression in literature, music, and thought known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Among those who participated in this cultural moment in northern Manhattan, which raised black consciousness nationally, were poet Langston Hughes, writer Zora Neale Hurston, and scholar and intellectual W. A new sense of African-American culture emerged, stoked by such leaders as Marcus Garvey, an advocate for black separatism and repatriation to Africa.
Slowly, African Americans won election to important political offices, including Oscar De Priest , a native Alabamian and future Member of Congress, who became a member of the Chicago city council in Next Section. Brian K. Among these, the 15th New York Regiment of the th U. Infantry stood out. It was the first Allied unit to reach the German border on the Rhine River, and never yielded a trench or lost a member to capture.
The French awarded the entire regiment the Croix de Guerre. New York: Oxford University Press, : 53— Though the ACS initially received support from several prominent politicians, vocal objectors and an economic depression in Liberia killed the project by the s.
All Rights Reserved. Portions are copyrighted by other institutions and individuals. Additional information on copyright and permissions. But the story is more complicated than the slogan. The Great Migration was largely from the rural South while the new migration has little to do with rural areas, or with states like Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana which saw so many leave during the exodus.
The big cities of Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina have attracted most of those participating in the Move South and typically this has not been a return migration. Some elders have returned home, but a strong majority are newcomers to the South, including many children or grandchildren of the exodus generation.
Others are immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa. And the migration is transforming the South. Many of the migrants have come with advanced skills and education: some with resources to start new enterprises, others with the capacity to affect the culture and politics of southern places. Here are interactive graphics and maps that allow us to track the migration south. The relocations of African Americans have been among the most consequential migrations in American history.
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