The Great African American Migration Part 3: Additional Sources and Records – James Tanner (Sep 2023)
This third video in a six-part series explains the causes and destinations of the early part of the movement with an additional example of a family with an amplification of the documents and sources for moving further back in time primarily using the U.S. Census records. The representative family will be used to show how the records help to supply research continuity. This part of the series will focus on a family from Detroit.
The Great African American Migration – James Tanner (16 Jul 2023)
The Great African American Migration Part 1: Overview and Methodology
The Great African American Migration Part 2: Destinations and Causes
The Great African American Migration Part 3: Additional Sources and Records
The Great African American Migration Part 4: Impact on the Country
The Great African American Migration Part 5: Understanding and Researching the Records
The Great African American Migration Part 6: Summary of the Main Record Sources