The Great Migration - from Holmes Cty, Mississippi to Chicago IL (1946)

Howard Jr Huggins (b. 1928) graduated from Saints School in Lexington MS in the Spring of 1946...

He moved to Chicago IL at @ age 19.

 

 

CHICAGO

 

Timidly,

we get off the train.

We hug our suitcases,

fearful of pickpockets.…

We are very reserved,

for we have been warned not to act green.…

We board our first Yankee street car

to go to a cousin’s home.…

We have been told

that we can sit where we please,

but we are still scared.

We cannot shake off

three hundred years of fear

in three hours.

—

RICHARD WRIGHT, 12 Million Black Voices

 

Wilkerson, Isabel (2010-09-07). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Kindle Locations 4110-4118). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Where would the six Huggins (Travis Off-spring) be today ???

Had not Uncle Son and My daddy participated in the GREAT MIGRATION from the deep south.... up North...!!!???

Crossing that Mason-Dixon Line.....

 

My Travis-Huggins Family was a part of this ERA

A pivotal but largely overlooked event in US history, millions of African Americans from the South migrated North during the period of the Great Migration, which began in the 1910s and continued to the 1970s.


The Great Migration involved three streams: the East Coast, the Midwest, and the West Coast.

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If you still haven't read Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, this interview will tempt you otherwise. Spoiler Alert: The interview with Isabel Wilkerson immediately follows the minute forty-six second donation solicitation.


Award-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson has spent the last decade researching why so many African Americans decided to leave the towns and farms of the South on such a large scale for her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.