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The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration is a non-fiction book by James R. Grossman, published by University of Chicago Press in 1991. It received several positive reviews in the academic press, and was noted as a significant contribution to scholarly work on Black community experience of migration to Chicago from southern states.
Grimshaw, William J. Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931–1991 (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Grossman, James R. Land of hope: Chicago, Black southerners, and the great migration (University of Chicago Press, 1991) Halpern, Rick.
Today, there is a noticeable shift in Black Americans moving from Northern metro areas to the Southern cities. Take Chicago, for example, which has historically been an economic capital for Black ...
During the Great Migration—which is regarded as one of the largest movements of people in U.S. history—about six million Black people relocated from the South to northern, midwestern, and ...
The Great Migration increased Illinois’ black population by 81% from 1920 to 1930. [4] Many African Americans would reside in Chicago where they would build communities in the South and West sides of Chicago, creating churches, businesses, community organizations, and more to survive and sustain themselves in the segregated city.
Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002). Gregory, James. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1991). Lemann, Nicholas.
Chicago's first Black community along Kinzie Street and Lake Street became adjacent to an Irish community by the river, as well as German, French, Czech, and Bohemian communities. Polish immigrants settled further north along the river in West Town to work at factories and on the railroad.