Imagery of Great Migration

   These images demonstrate the actions of men and women moving with whatever they could carry or fit onto a car – with suitcases, or cloth satchels, to transport themselves toward the urban north of the United States, and the unsure promise of a different sort of life.

The wikipedia article about the Great Migration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

The History Channel page of information about the Great Migration:

http://www.history.com/topics/great-migration

PBS article relating to jazz and the Great Migration:

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/places/faces_migration.htm

Library of Congress Exhibition information page about the Great Migration:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html