learnodes.com » american http://www.learnodes.com Every node is a synapse in webs of ideas. Mon, 18 May 2009 13:39:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Learn node: The African American Great Migration in the early twentieth century http://www.learnodes.com/2008/03/01/the-african-american-great-migration-in-the-early-twentieth-century/ http://www.learnodes.com/2008/03/01/the-african-american-great-migration-in-the-early-twentieth-century/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:57:42 +0000 Judy Breck http://www.learnodes.com/2008/03/01/the-african-american-great-migration-in-the-early-twentieth-century/ omaha.jpg

Learn node topic: African American Great Migration. “From 1860-1920, the number of people living in towns of 8000 or more grew from 6 million to 54 million, with immigrants from Europe and rural migrants from the U.S. forming the bulk of newcomers.” We learn this from a Notre Dame African American history lecture on The Migration. A lecture on The Great Migration: Blacks in White America from the University of Wisconsin adds:

Blacks turned to the “Promised Land” of the North in search of jobs and greater racial toleration. However, such basic demands fueled increasing debate over the place of blacks in predominantly white America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Nebraska Department of Education and Nebraska State Historical Society tell in detail of the period’s corruption and racial violence in Omaha. Along with the image show with this post of soldiers on guard in Omaha, others from the Nebraska article include a photograph of the burning of Will Brown’s body, Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 28, 1919. The Library of Congress collection in its African-American Mosaic includes Chicago as a destination for the Great Migration. Digital History provides another overview of The Great Migration in the 1920s period and The Jazz Age.

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Frederick Douglass materials that are not enslaved by proprietary Internet barriers are plentiful and authoritative online. The University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project offers letters, images, writings, links and other educational resources and opportunities. The project is the work of the University of Rochester Libraries with the support of Xerox Corporation. The University of Pennsylvania offers online Douglass books. The Library of Congress offers a large depository of Douglass’ papers, openly available to the online visitor. Documenting the American South makes available more documents and more links.

Each of the sources you can click to above will provide paths to click to more and more about Frederick Douglass. The networking among the open online resources for this great and famous man is far richer, more complete and authoritative than any previous resource for the topic. It includes, for example, video clips from Biography.com.

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