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Title: Leaving the Land of Opportunity: Arkansas and the Great Migration

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Between 1930 and 1970, almost fifteen million Americans left their homes and farms to seek new opportunities in other states, one of the largest population movements in American history. When popular literature and television documentaries describe this migration, the story usually involves black migrants who ride the Illinois Central out of the Mississippi Delta in a desperate escape from the malevolent effects of the mechanical cotton picker. Yet this population movement . . .

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Authors: Holley, Donald

Periodical (Full): Arkansas Historical Quarterly

Issue: 3

Volume: 64

Pages: 245-261

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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