Travel, this necessary human activity was a daunting and dangerous undertaking for people of color in the America. The mere human need to visit a relative in a neighboring state within the United States was complicated by the fact of...
Winner of Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times 2019 Book Prize in History Winner of the Southern Association for Women's Historians 2020 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for...
Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion...