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A MOVEMENT IN EVERY DIRECTION: LEGACIES OF THE GREAT MIGRATION
Opens at the Mississippi Museum of Art on April 9th Being of African descent and descendants of stolen Africans, the quest to find ‘home’ is often a lifelong journey. A more attainable journey, however, is one that grants us the opportunity to trace our family’s migration within the continental United States. What is known as The Great Migration occurred in two phases between the 1910s and the 1970s and saw approximately six million Black people move from the American South
Vivian Phillips
Mar 23, 20222 min read
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