Map of Railroad Routes Followed by Black Migrants
African-American migrants to the North chose their destinations primarily based on their state of origin: those from Georgia and the Carolinas headed to cities along the eastern seaboard like New York and Philadelphia; migrants from Alabama and Mississippi headed for the Midwestern cities like Chicago; and those from Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee often headed west to California.
Source | American Social History Project, Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's History (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
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Item Type | Map
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Map of Railroad Routes Followed by Black Migrants,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed March 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1594.
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Item Type | Map
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Map of Railroad Routes Followed by Black Migrants,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed March 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1594.