M7: The Great Migration
1910 - 1940, 1940 - 1970
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Assigned Readings
Assigned Readings
Tolnay-2003-African Americans and the Great Migration (20pgs)
Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns
NYT 1619 Project (requires log in)
Everyone is talking about 1619. But that’s not actually when slavery in America started.
Fornieri, Joseph R., et al. “Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project.” Quillette, 31 Oct. 2019, quillette.com/2019/10/30/frederick-douglass-the-columbian-orator-and-the-1619-project/.
African American Experience
Italian American Experience
Jewish American Experience
Some places with great photos of Ellis Island.
Ellis Island - The Daily Mail
Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North heard on Fresh Air, Author Interviews, Sep 13, 2010 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129827444
The Great Migration: The African American Exodus from The South. (2016, January 28). Retrieved March 17, 2019, from https://priceonomics.com/the-great-migration-the-african-american-exodus/
Wilkerson, Isabel. (Sep 2016) "The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration," The Smithsonian Magazine retrieved from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/long-lasting-legacy-great-migration-180960118/
The Great Migration Primary Sources from DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sets/the-great-migration/
History.com editors (2018, September 20) Great Migration Retrieved March 17, 2019, from http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration
Holloway, Jonathan Scott. Jim Crow and the Great Migration retrieved from http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essays/jim-crow-and-great-migration
Black, D. A., Sanders, S. G., Taylor, E. J., & Taylor, L. J. (2015). The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South. The American economic review, 105(2), 477-503. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4559284/)
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