Intra-southern migration during the Great Migration.

[Supper]

This'll be more a data dump for me, than a comprehensive write up.

From the rural south to urban Louisville, KY.
Project MUSE - <i>Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930–1970</i> by Luther Adams (review)
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ias_pub

Memphis as one of the drop off points of migrants between Mississippi and Chicago.
Goin' to Chicago

North Florida and GA to Miami.
Florida and the Black Migration on JSTOR
Miami's African and Caribbean Heritage

Rural Texas and Louisiana to Houston(also a drop off point between the rural South and California).
Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900–1941
https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/In-Search-of-Freedom.pdf

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I was thinking about doing a thread on this too lol

 

[Supper]

I was thinking about doing a thread on this too lol

lol Shoulda let you do the honors, since I'm too lazy to do an actual write up.

Migration of Afr'Ams from rural Texas and 'surrounding states'(I'm assuming LA and AR) to Dallas and other Northeast TX cities to work in the railroad industry.
Freedman's Towns of Dallas/Fort Worth
Do you know black history in Dallas? | Commentary | Dallas News

 

[Black Haven]

I'm glad someone made this thread because recently the great migration has peaked my interest. You know I always wondered which southern state did African Americans in cities like STL and Kansas city mostly migrate from. I'm thinking maybe Arkansas or Mississippi.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Great thread.

I actually have a family member that I know of that went from NC to Baton Rouge, LA during the great migration. Weird route, but it brought her great economic success.

Other than that, most of my fam that left NC during the time either went to NYC or Michigan.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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[IllmaticDelta]

This'll be more a data dump for me, than a comprehensive write up.



North Florida and GA to Miami.
Florida and the Black Migration on JSTOR
Miami's African and Caribbean Heritage

a look at Florida from 1850-1990


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[Supper]

a look at Florida from 1850-1990

The GA and North FL AA roots are thick in Miami.

Miami and Houston mirror each other in many ways. Both in states that were former Spanish colonies that acted as routes for slaves from the "old south" on the underground railroad. And both were southern destinations that saw a net increase in black population throughout the great migration and acted as alternative routes for AAs going up north(particularly to NY), and out west(particularly to California) respectively.

What many people don’t know about the Great Migration though is that there was a significant migration of free African Americans that went south, mostly from Georgia into Florida. See the map below for the main routes African American took post civil war:

The majority of these northern transplants who came to Miami settled in an area referred to as, “colored town” which eventually became known as Overtown, NW of the city core. You’ll see that the various colored towns in other cities around the country are all located in the same NW quadrant.

https://www.theworldorbust.com/black-miami-the-history-you-never-learned/

Miami's AA community has strong gullah/geechee roots in the same way Houston's AA community has strong creole roots.

Regional variations in Southern cuisine also influenced Overtown cooking. Those residents who came from other parts of Florida likely brought recipes using citrus fruits like Key Lime Pie and Florida orange juice. The people from Georgia likely brought recipes made of peanuts, pecans, peaches, or Vidalia onions. And those from South Carolina likely brought the influences of the Lowcountry Gullah cuisine. Lowcountry favorites include shrimp and stone ground grits, hoppin‘john, she-crab soup, fish & grits, and barbecue made with a mustard-based sauce.

About the Overtown Cookbook

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The GA and North FL AA roots are thick in Miami.

Yup. Miami's first black millionaire was from GA

Miami and Houston mirror each other in many ways. Both in states that were former Spanish colonies that acted as routes for slaves from the "old south" on the underground railroad. And both were southern destinations that saw a net increase in black population throughout the great migration and acted as alternative routes for AAs going up north(particularly to NY), and out west(particularly to California) respectively.






Miami's AA community has strong gullah/geechee roots in the same way Houston's AA community has strong creole roots.


About the Overtown Cookbook

yup

 

[xoxodede]

Great thread.

I really want to know why my some of maternal and paternal family from Alabama migrated to New Jersey during the early 1920's. I wonder why New Jersey and not NYC.

My 2nd Great Grandparents - both born in 1865 - left Alabama and moved to New Jersey - which is really unique in my maternal family -- as most stayed.

But, later their descendants decided to not go to New Jersey but Michigan, Ohio or Chicago.

Basically, what was going on in New Jersey or jobs that made many from Alabama go there. But, something happened during phase II of the The Great Migration that made them bypass New Jersey/Up North -- and choose the Midwest.

 

[NZA]

I'm wondering if my mom's family coming to arizona from texas was a part of a mid-century wave or just a one off type thing...

 

[GoAggieGo.]

I have admiration and great respect for all of our ancestors, but the admiration goes up a notch for those that stayed in the south during that time or earlier.

I know life had to be hell, but to stay and make the best of a horrible situation or stay and fight for your home deserves props.

 

[im_sleep]

I'm wondering if my mom's family coming to arizona from texas was a part of a mid-century wave or just a one off type thing...

It was definitely part of the migration.

Before they eventually ended up in California my direct maternal line migrated to Arizona from Oklahoma and Texas.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

I’m very interested in the AA’s who settled in places like Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, etc. Gotta read up on that.

I know @Cadillac is out in Arizona. How’d your fam end up out there, breh? Do you know where y’all started? I’m assuming it was somewhere down south

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I'm wondering if my mom's family coming to arizona from texas was a part of a mid-century wave or just a one off type thing...

it was a "thing"....Texans seem to be the most numerous of the migrants from 1910 on

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