How did Black migrants use work, family networks, letters, and newspapers to pursue a different future during the First World War?
Period covered: 1916-1919, documented in 1920
View books in this collectionBlack migration, wartime labor, family decisions, and the changing relationship between the South and northern cities. Contemporary reports and testimony open questions about movement, opportunity, and unequal power.
Emmett J. Scott’s 1920 study gathers migrant testimony, investigator reports, newspapers, and competing estimates of the wartime movement. This forthcoming edition preserves the historical text while adding critical context, a chronology, a glossary, and documented visual sources.
By Emmett J. Scott; Edited by Elias Rowan Hartwell
Emmett J. Scott’s 1920 study follows the wartime movement of Black people from the South to northern, eastern, and midwestern cities. This edition preserves Scott’s evidence and period language while adding a critical orientation, chronology, glossary, reader context, and four supplied newspaper scans alongside Scott’s original migration map.
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