Before the Civil War, the vast majority (approximately 90 percent) of African Americans lived in the South. Though some former slaves moved away from the South after the war, most of the ...

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 ...

There's a Great Digital Migration happening on the ... Ashon Crawley, a professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, told NBC News ...

"Great Migrations" also explores the cultural and political impact that Black residents had on their new homes and an eventual "reverse" migration back to the South. The series is hosted by Henry ...

A century ago, overwhelming majorities of both parties in Congress voted for the Immigration Act of 1924, which dramatically cut immigration.

From 1915, social injustice, poverty and fear drove half a million African Americans from the South to the North, in what was called The Great Migration. In the North, African Americans had to ...

Overloaded smugglers' boats attempting the risky journey across the Mediterranean — the image springs to mind when African migration ... such as "The great climate migration has begun" in ...