"America's Unfinished Revolution:" Searching for Democracy and Equality through Reconstruction and the Great Migration
Spring 2006
Session 4
Internet Resources
Research Resources on Chicago and the Great Migration
This site contains a great collection of resources, including a bibliography and numerous web links (that include maps, online exhibits, and documents), on the Great Migration in Chicago, with a particular (though not exclusive) focus on music and art.
The History Matters site contains these two sets of documents, and a blues song reflective of the era:
"Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart": Seven Letters from the Great Migration
The title speaks for itself.
"We Tho[ugh]t State Street Would Be Heaven Itself": Black Migrants Speak Out
Drawn from interviews conducted by seminal black social researcher Charles Johnson in Chicago and Mississippi beginning in 1917. Going door to door, Johnson questioned recent southern black migrants to Chicago about their histories and current thoughts about their experiences. His summaries of the interviews conveyed a sense of migrants’ diverse response to life in Chicago.
“Times Is Gettin Harder”: Blues of the Great Migration (1940)
At Home with Art & Industry: 1890-1920. The Story of Ruby Livingston
A brief story with links about a southern African-American woman who goes to Chicago during the Great Migration; it serves as the gateway to additional resources, activities, and lesson plans. Appropriate for middle school. Part of a larger interactive site created by the Illinois State Museum that focuses on the history of Chicago.
Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
This online exhibit focuses on the arts but also has sections on activism and community, links, and resources for teachers, for example, “Reading a photograph” and a bibliography for young readers.
Alain Locke, ed. The New Negro (1925)
This website is a hypermedia edition of the Survey Graphic magazine from March 1925, compiled and edited by Alain Locke, which was soon thereafter published as The New Negro anthology. If you can’t get a hold of the book, you can now view the essential contents online!
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