CHICAGO — There’s a sense of pride for ... what would come to be known as The Great Migration started with great journalism. “Publishing was a fraught enterprise for African Americans ...
The Emuwa family is part of an epic out-migration of Black families from Chicago, reversing the decades-long Great Migration that saw families leave the Jim Crow South for industrial jobs in ...
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 ...