Primary Source Spotlight: Great Migration
Primary sources
- Great Migration primary source set | teacher’s guide
- Great Migration: Finding Pictures research guide | related blog post
- A Century of Negro Migration: The Exodus During the World War 1918
- Negro migration historical newspaper articles
- Image sets
- African Americans in the United States 1910-1970 (scroll to sort further by years or location)
- Black Belt, Chicago
- Negro business and professional men and women
- Colored housing
- Negro housing
- Integration
- Segregation
- Nicodemus, Kansas primary source set
- Elmer Thomas life history
- Great Migration primary source set from State Historical Society of Iowa includes background, supporting questions and teaching guide
Online exhibitions
- The African-American Mosaic: Migrations
- The Great Migration New York Public Library
Articles
- The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration Smithsonian Magazine September 2016
- Migration North after World War II Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
- The Great Migration in Library of Congress Primary Sources Teaching with the Library (primary source analysis activity)
- Exploring the Great Migration with Primary Sources in Different Formats Teaching with the Library
- Primary Sources and Agency Teaching with the Library October 17, 2023
- Reflections from the Library: Interesting Finds to Introduce Content Teaching with the Library
- What Atlases Can Reveal about the Great Migration Teaching with the Library (primary source activity ideas)
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