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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]
The show was accompanied by the publication of a two-volume catalogue, published by Yale University Press in association with the MMA and BMA: A Movement in Every Direction: A Great Migration Reader, and A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration (both 2022). The first volume includes contemporary and historical texts along ...
The significant changes that occurred in Philadelphia's demographics at the start of the 20th century caused major shifts in Germantown's ethnic makeup as well. When the first wave of the Great Migration brought more than 140,000 African Americans to the city from the South, long-established Philadelphians started to move to the outskirts ...
Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1620–1643) Great Migrations of the Serbs from the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg Monarchy (1690 and 1737) Great Migration of Canada, increased migration to Canada (approximately 1815–1850) Great Migration, resulting from the 1947 Partition of British India; African American "Great ...
The term "Great Migration" can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were mainly motivated by freedom to practice their beliefs.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson is an American historian. She is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of three books: New England's ...
Numerous stone houses and barns in the region attest to the Welsh heritage. Oneida County and Utica, New York became the cultural center of the Welsh-American community in the 19th century. Suffering from poor harvests in 1789 and 1802 and dreaming of land ownership, the initial settlement of five Welsh families soon attracted other ...
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633 [first series], 3 volumes (NEHGS, 1995). The first phase of the Great Migration Study Project identifies and describes all those Europeans who settled in New England prior to the end of 1633 — over 900 early New England families. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England ...