The Great Black Migration

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. * Provides students with essential information about key people, places, organizati [...]
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Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. * Provides students with essential information about key people, places, organizations, and events that defined the movement of Southern African Americans to the urban North and West * Covers the first major migration between the advent of World War I and the Great Depression and the second, smaller wave from 1940 to 1970 * Devotes considerable space to the social, cultural, and political world of black migrant communities of the urban North and West * Includes primary sources to promote critical thinking and interpretive reading underscored in the Common Core Standards * Features contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including art and music history, demography, economics, journalism, history, literary criticism, political science, and sociology