The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of five million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban …

Mar 11, 2026 · The Great Migration was the widespread movement of millions of African Americans, from the 1910s to 1970, from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West in …

Jun 28, 2021 · The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, …

Mar 4, 2010 · The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.

By then, millions of African-Americans had already testified with their bodies to the repression they had endured in the Jim Crow South by defecting to the North and West in what came to be known...

Jan 16, 2024 · The Great Migration was a mass movement of millions of African Americans that forever changed the state of Georgia and the United States. It developed in two general phases, with an …

Feb 24, 2025 · The Great Migration was a historic movement of Black Americans, primarily in response to rampant injustice and racial violence. From around 1910 to 1970, these communities left their …

Millions of African Americans moved from rural to urban centers and from southeastern states to the north and west. This exodus, which came to be called “the Great Migration,” transformed American …

Between 1910 and 1970 approximately six million African Americans moved from the South to northern, midwestern and western states. One of the largest and fastest mass migrations in the nation’s …

Over the twentieth century, more than seven million African Americans left the South for northern and western states in what historians call the Great Migration. This page introduces interactive maps, …