An illustrated chronicle of the migrations--forced and voluntary--into, out of, and within the United States that have created the current black population.

Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 2

With essays by Blyden Jackson, Dernoral Davis, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Carole Marks, James R. Grossman, and William Cohen and Neil R. McMillen What we

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flouris

"When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out