The Great Migration for African Americans began during World War I as blacks left the segregated south to find jobs in the north. Read about how segregation followed them into their northern neighborhoods. See also how the Harlem...

Artistic expressions of the new black self image inspired by migration to the urban North. This focus of this site is "Song of the Towers", a series of four murals sponsored by the federal Works Projects Administration, outlining black...

Read about the racism in unions throughout the United States after World War I, culminating in race riots in 1919, especially in Chicago.

Contains an article written on the African American exodus to Kansas to farm in the late 19th century.

Contains a description of the Exodusters and their impact on the American West through their immigration.