Contemporary Reading Shelves--In Motion: The Great Black Migration

Chabot Library Celebrates Black History Month

STOP by the library and check-out our current book display, “In Motion: The Great Black Migration,” in celebration of Black History Month. Learn about the African-American migration experience through the voices of extraordinary men and women who endured a culture of slavery and oppression in this country. While researching this month’s display, I came across powerful texts and authors, like the work of Dr. Carole Marks, who along with eleven other scholars contributed to In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience (http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm), an excellent online resource on this subject.

Her essay, “The Great Migration: African-Americans Searching for the Promised Land, 1916-1930,” is available in its entirety at this web site. In her essay she writes, “the Great Migration was about migrants starting over and making sacrifices for future generations whom they would probably never see. As W.E.B. DuBois concluded, the journey North represented not the end of a struggle but only its beginning.”