The Great American Migration

The Great Migration: 20th Century African American Migration and Why it Matters

Overview

Between 1910 and 1970, an estimated six million African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West Coast; a demographic movement known as the Great Migration. Join Lifetime Learning and Kevin Gaines, the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia, as he discusses how this 20th Century wave of African American urban migration transformed American politics, culture, and society.

Speaker Biography

Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Corcoran Department of History and Associate Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies

Kevin Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. His current research is on the integrationist projects of African American activists, artists, and intellectuals. His research includes interventions that redefined Blackness and acknowledged the relationship of structural and ideological forms of racism within racial capitalism, patriarchy, and homophobia.