Great Migration

CTL-E-0239 · Event · 1916–1970

Verified evidence grade of this record

Movement of about six million African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, Midwest, and West, reshaping Chicago's Black Belt.

The record

Also known as: Great Northward Migration, Black Migration

Sources

Wikipedia: Great Migration (African American)

Record CTL-E-0239 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: PLACE-001, BCI-001.
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Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Great Migration (CTL-E-0239),” October 4, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0239/

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The roads out, the roads back, and the ground in between. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Pullman porter aboard the Capitol Limited bound for Chicago (Jack Delano, FSA-OWI)Photo: Jack Delano, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Segregated bus station, Durham, N.C., 1940 (Jack Delano, FSA-OWI)Photo: Jack Delano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Nicodemus townsite, Kansas (HABS survey)Photo: National Park Service / Historic American Buildings Survey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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