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The Great Migration

An excerpt from A Century of Negro Migration by Carter G. Woodson, 1918.

An excerpt from A Century of Negro Migration by Carter G. Woodson, 1918.

Citation Information: Woodson, Carter Godwin, excerpt from “A century of negro migration,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/57cb01d35f73f3f2522ed959df112c80.

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An excerpt from A Century of Negro Migration by Carter G. Woodson, 1918.

A photograph of an African American family arriving in Chicago after migrating from the rural South, 1922.

An excerpt from The Industrial Condition of the Negro in the North, 1906.

A 1922 photograph by Carter G. Woodson captioned “A result of the migration. A Negro teacher with pupils of both races.”

A 1922 photograph from Chicago captioned “Negro women employed on power machines in a large apron factory.”

An excerpt from Chicago Race Riots, a 1919 analysis of the race riots in Chicago during the “Red Summer.”

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