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The Great Migration: Journey to the North

by Eloise Greenfield Publisher: AMISTAD PR

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A poetic family view of the Great Migration

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A poetic family view of the Great Migration

Eloise Greenfield frames the Great Migration through the experience of one family joining thousands of Black families who left Southern homes for northern cities in search of new possibilities. Poems and Jan Spivey Gilchrist’s collage artwork present the move through hopes, courage, dreams, and the practical reality of bringing children into an uncertain new chapter. The book also connects this history to the creators’ own family migrations—from North Carolina, Arkansas, and Mississippi to Washington, D.C., and Chicago—placing a major movement in U.S. history within personal memory. A bibliography closes the volume.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers learning about African American history in the United States
  • Families and classrooms discussing the Great Migration through personal stories
  • Children who enjoy poetry paired with collage artwork

Themes

The Great MigrationAfrican American family historyMigration and new beginningsHope and courageCommunity memory

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Book overview

We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life.

In this beautiful collection of poems and collage artwork, award winners Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist gracefully depict the experiences of families like their own, who found the courage to leave their homes behind during the Great Migration and make new lives for themselves elsewhere.

When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved from their home in Parmele, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C. Before Jan Spivey Gilchrist was born, her mother moved from Arkansas and her father moved from Mississippi. Both settled in Chicago, Illinois. Though none of them knew it at the time, they had all become part of the Great Migration.

The Great Migration concludes with a bibliography.

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