In this session, we learn more about and analyze Black immigration and migration patterns in United States history including the:

• *  Great Migration, which was the migration of six million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that lasted until the 1960s.

• *  Recent new immigration patterns of Black people from the Caribbean and Africa and

• *  The New Great Migration, which is the demographic changes from 1965 to the present which reflects a reverse of the Great Migration, where Black people are moving back to Southern states, particularly Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas.

Resources: 

Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North (NPR.org)

The Great Migration (In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, inmotionaame.org)

The Great Migration (History.com)

“The Great Reverse Migration: African-Americans are abandoning the Northern cities that have failed them” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 30, 2012)