Title: Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration
Date Span: 1916-1925
Creator: Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985
Extent: 25 reels
Format: Microfilm
Language: English
Locations: The Monroe Fordham Regional History Center, Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State
Access:
The Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration microfilm is open for research. Materials are only available on microfilm for access within the department. Appointment required.
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Biographical Note:
With the booming economy in northern cities during World War I, approximately one-half million blacks left the South and headed north in pursuit of work. This collection consists of federal documents that pertain to the changing patterns of both labor and migration during the decade after the war. Specifically, these documents refer to agricultural and industrial labor, unionism, housing, race relations, veteran employment, and the processes of migration.
