Category Archives: Great Migration

Monograph by Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian, author, Newsist, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, that traces the history of African American migration to northern U.S. states., 1918

National Archives Folder: Migration of African Americans to northern areas, and East St. Louis Riot, U.S. Department of Labor, Chief Clerk’s Files, 1917-1926, 1926

National Archives Folder: Postwar Activities, U.S. Department of Labor, Chief Clerk’s Files, 1919-1933, 1919-1933

Editorial on African American migration in the U.S., 1891

Article on northern migration published in The Crisis, 1917

Editorial on African American migration in the U.S., 1917

News editorial on African American migration in the U.S., 1924

Article on northern migration by Walter White, published in The Crisis, 1920