The Great Black Migration: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States.

• Provides students with essential information about key people, places, organizations, and events that defined the movement of Southern African Americans to the urban North and West

• Covers the first major migration between the advent of World War I and the Great Depression and the second, smaller wave from 1940 to 1970

• Devotes considerable space to the social, cultural, and political world of black migrant communities of the urban North and West

• Includes primary sources to promote critical thinking and interpretive reading underscored in the Common Core Standards

• Features contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including art and music history, demography, economics, journalism, history, literary criticism, political science, and sociology