The great black migration from the South had only begun.
The Second great black migration increased the populations of these cities while adding others.
His family was part of the great black migration that left Kentucky and points south at the turn of the century.
In the South, alarmed whites, worried that their labor force was leaving, often tried to block black migration.
Whites resisted black migration to Harlem housing, and it was no different with jobs.
He thought about the great black migration to Chicago from the South, nearly a century before, and the traditions the migrants had made there.
In that same period, California was a net loser of black migration for the first time in three decades.
They probably came here by way of one of two major black migrations out of the south in the 20th century.
The black migration was the great postwar cultural event in America, he argues, only a shade simplistically.
The Abyssinian church eventually followed the black migration further and further uptown.
