Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
We typically learn that the Great Migration was an economic story of Black Americans leaving the South to move up North to acquire better jobs. Which is true, however, it leaves out an important question. Why were six million people willing to leave home? Between 1910 and 1970, about six million Black Americans moved from the South to northern, midwestern and western states. The National Archives describes the Great Migration as one of the largest movements of people in Unite
