The Great Migration between 1915 and 1970 when over 6 million African Americans moved from the Southern States to the North, is one of the most dramatic movements of people within United States that has ever occurred, and it is almost completely ignored by historians and is unknown to most genealogists. My presentation focuses on the people and records from the 20th Century and the difficulty in connecting the individuals and families to the places they were living at the turn of the century. I also focus on discovering your ancestral heritage and how to acquire the skills and tools you need to research the existing historical records. I realize that for many researchers, extending research about African Americans into the 1800s is where the real difficulty begins. But success in doing research in the 1800s is predicated on complete and thorough research in the 1900s. Of course, I can only cover a limited amount of information in this presentation, but what I say here will be augmented by a six-video series and an extensive handout. My handout contains all the links to support the content of this presentation and the six supplemental videos and, in addition, an extensive bibliography. I will include some limited references to the historical resources before 1900.
The handout is available on the BYU Family History Website. Here is the link to the handout.
https://fh.lib.byu.edu/2023/07/17/the-great-african-american-migration-james-tanner-16-jul-2023/
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