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Lectures in History: The Great Migration

Photo of family after arriving in Chicago from the South (1919)

Photo of family after arriving in Chicago from the South (1919)

Stanford, California
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Stanford University professor Allyson Hobbs, a specialist in 20th century African American history, discusses the Great Migration, a period when millions of blacks moved from the South to areas North and West after 1910.

Updated: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:36pm (ET)

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Washington Journal (late 2012)