Horn & Hickory, American Source Editions

The Negro Migration During the War

A record of social and economic change

By Emmett J. Scott

Imprint: American Source Editions

Emmett J. Scott records the movement of Black Americans from the rural South to northern industrial cities during the First World War, drawing on interviews, reports, and contemporary records.

First published
1920
Length
216 pages
Topics
Migration, Labor, African American history

Audio sample: Opening: the economic causes of migration

0:000:12

Read sample transcript

Among the immediate economic causes of the migration were the labor depression in the South in 1914 and 1915 and the large decrease in foreign immigration resulting from the World War.

About this edition

This edition preserves Scott’s 1920 text, regularizes damaged typography, and adds a short chronology of wartime migration.

Source basis
Emmett J. Scott’s 1920 edition.
Edition by
American Source Editions, Horn & Hickory

Contents

  1. The Migration of a Race
  2. The Causes of the Migration
  3. The Call of the Self-Sufficient North
  4. The New Industrial Worker
  5. The Church and the Migrant

Related editions

Browse all restored editions