The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
Detroit’s Black population grew sixfold from 1910 to 1920, and many businesses that sprouted to welcome the newcomers ...
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The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
Kendra D. Boyd, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s.
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What Was the Great Migration?
African American migration had a voice — and ... to demand better from their economies and communities. The Great Migration slowed down and eventually reversed in the 1970s, with Black Americans ...
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Waterloo's African American museum opens to the public for the first time
For the first time in its nearly 30 year history, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum is opening to the ...