Essays on The Great Migration

History is dotted with stories of communities who were forced by people or circumstances to migrate from the land that they inhabited and move to a new place. One such occurrence, a historical event, is The Great Migration as told by Isabel Wilkerson in the…

WWI In 1914, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist. This event started a war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Because each country has their own respective allies sworn to defend them, more nations became involved. Germany, Russia, France, and Great Britain were all dragged…

The Great Migration: The Longest Journey of Their Lives From 1915 to 1950, over one million African-Americans relocated themselves from the deep South to the states in the North. They wanted to live in a better world with more opportunities for their families and generations…

The greatest outburst of arts, music, poetry, literature in order to resist the inequality (racism) from which Black people suffered, led to a movement in the 1920s (which lasted up to the 1940s) called the Harlem Renaissance. This movement is also called the “New Negro…