African American extended family arriving in Chicago from the rural South, ca. 1920. Between 1910 and 1930, some 1.6 MILLION Blacks, many of grandchildren of slaves, left the small, rural towns of the South and migrated North to industrial cities …
The Great Migration “We Gettin’ Da @#$% Outta Here”
In 1889, Jim Crow began in the South, kicking off a campaign of unconstrained textbook terrorism that would last until 1965. 85% of all lynching’s that occurred in the United States occurred south of the Mason Dixon line. In 1892 …
Enter Marcus Garvey
In 1900, a whopping 90% of Black Americans still lived in the south. By 1930, one out of every three black Americans had migrated from the South into northern industrial cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and New York City. To …
The Nation of Islam
Eugenics had gotten very popular here in America by the turn of the century, as there were many people looking to Eugenics to advance their social agendas. Eugenics was being used in the United States to support a variety of …
Fool me once…
When the grandchildren of enslaved Africans returned home from Europe after fighting World War I, they returned with the hope that after serving honorably, their own country would appreciate their bravery and sacrifice and see to it that their own …