[Ads-l] "Great Migration" (Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

This is an important term in African American historiography.

Great Migration (not in OED)  1945 Chicago Defender 22 Dec. 13 (ProQuest)  Richard M. Jones, the man in Chicago who probably knew more about jazz than any other individual in the world ... who came to Chicago during the Great Migration.

Fred Shapiro

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