A People on the Move, a new four-part series hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries. We spoke with the series ...

A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, a new history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The 4-part series examines the powerful influence of ...

The first episode of the four-part series, called “Exodus,” details the first wave of migration north from southern states that helped turn the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago into a Black ...

Before the Civil War, the vast majority (approximately 90 percent) of African Americans lived in the South. Though some former slaves moved away from the South after the war, most of the ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known ...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ... to the frustrations of black Americans that are so palpable today. The Great Migration is the term given by historians ...

There’s a sense of pride for many Americans in our identity as a melting pot. But until the early part of the 20th Century, ...

From 1920 to 1930, the African American population exploded in Chicago, increasing from 109,458 to 233,903 residents in just a decade. The Great Migration of people was accompanied by a musical ...

It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been ...