Monument to the Great Northern Migration

CTL-E-0874 · Institution · other · 1994 or 1996-present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

15-foot bronze sculpture by Alison Saar at 2600 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (26th Street), the historic entrance to Bronzeville; depicts a northward-facing traveler carrying a worn suitcase.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005, BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:d-migration-monument, CTL-DR-BVM-005:memorial-great-migration; source research type(s): institution, place.

Sources

Duke Migration Memorials database; Talbot Spy
hmdb.org marker transcription (primary source)

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