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World War II Defense Industry Migration to West Coast Shipyards (1940–1945)

1940 - 1946

14 entries

Second Great Migration (1940–1970)

1940 - 1970

16 entries

San Francisco Bay Area — WWII-era Migration and Urban Growth (1940–1955)

1940 - 1955

15 entries

Red Summer (1919) and Its Migration Consequences (1919–1925)

1916 - 1925

15 entries

New Great Migration: Black Return to the South (1970s–present)

1965 - 2021

12 entries

Mechanization of Southern Agriculture and Rural Displacement (1930–1960)

1930 - 1960

14 entries

Los Angeles — African American Migration to the West Coast (1940–1970)

1940 - 1970

14 entries

Interwar Northern Recruitment and the Great Northern Drive (1916–1925)

1914 - 1925

12 entries

Harlem, New York — Influx and the Harlem Renaissance (1915–1937)

1915 - 1937

14 entries

Formation of Chicago's Bronzeville Cultural Institutions (1915–1950)

1910 - 1950

14 entries

First Great Migration (1910–1930)

1910 - 1930

12 entries

Federal Housing Administration Policies and Redlining (1934–1970)

1933 - 1970

14 entries
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