The Great Migration Begins: When Did It Start and Why It Changed History Forever
The first wave of Black Americans fleeing the Jim Crow South didn’t begin with a single declaration or a signed manifesto. Instead, it unfolded in quiet desperation—one train ticket at a time, one sharecropper’s broken plow at a time. By 1916, when World War I’s labor shortages created an unexpected vacuum in Northern factories, the … Read more
