Great Migration Books

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,334 ratings — published 2010
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Overground Railroad Overground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.30 — 964 ratings — published 2020
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Finding Langston Finding Langston (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,209 ratings — published 2018
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This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,080 ratings — published 2013
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Invisible Man Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as great-migration)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,199 ratings — published 1952
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.24 — 800 ratings — published 1991
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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (Dear America) Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (Dear America)
by (shelved 3 times as great-migration)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,965 ratings — published 2000
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Hattie Mae Begins Again Hattie Mae Begins Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as great-migration)
avg rating 3.88 — 116 ratings — published
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Zeal Zeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,093 ratings — published 2025
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All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 207 ratings — published
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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (Logans #8) All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (Logans #8)
by (shelved 2 times as great-migration)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,554 ratings — published 2020
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Leaving Lymon (The Finding Langston Trilogy) Leaving Lymon (The Finding Langston Trilogy)
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avg rating 4.35 — 772 ratings — published 2020
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Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.29 — 427 ratings — published 2020
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 41,400 ratings — published 2012
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AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as great-migration)
avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 1999
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.99 — 732 ratings — published 2023
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The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume I (A-F) The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume I (A-F)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1995
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The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2004
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On Juneteenth On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,765 ratings — published 2021
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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.50 — 703 ratings — published 2023
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Not Without Laughter Not Without Laughter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,989 ratings — published 1930
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What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: A Memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: A Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 82 ratings — published
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The Great Migration Newsletter Volumes 6 Thorugh 10 1997-2001 The Great Migration Newsletter Volumes 6 Thorugh 10 1997-2001 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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1919 1919 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 2,760 ratings — published 2019
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book) Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.65 — 1,113 ratings — published 2022
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A Pair of Wings A Pair of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,362 ratings — published 2024
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,049 ratings — published 2004
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The Great Migration: Journey to the North The Great Migration: Journey to the North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.03 — 495 ratings — published 2010
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The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 ratings — published 2015
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.89 — 361 ratings — published
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Homegoing Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,975 ratings — published 2016
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,013 ratings — published 2016
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Daddy Played the Blues Daddy Played the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.06 — 47 ratings — published 2017
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The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 88 ratings — published 2015
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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 146 ratings — published 2015
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A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
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Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2009
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The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published 1999
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.20 — 108 ratings — published 2016
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.00 — 575 ratings — published 2014
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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (America in the World) The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (America in the World)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.89 — 19 ratings — published 2014
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Negro in Twentieth Century America a Reader on the Negro in Twentieth Century America a Reader on the (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1964
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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 (Blacks in the New World) Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 (Blacks in the New World)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.86 — 128 ratings — published 1972
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The Turner House The Turner House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.64 — 18,590 ratings — published 2015
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.11 — 962 ratings — published 2003
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The Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,471 ratings — published 1995
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The Settlers in Canada The Settlers in Canada
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.76 — 95 ratings — published 1844
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Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.79 — 77 ratings — published 2007
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A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 (Blacks in the New World) A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 (Blacks in the New World)
by (shelved 1 time as great-migration)
avg rating 3.86 — 43 ratings — published 1976
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Tapio Tiihonen
“Said he was patient. Said he was humble. Disciplined.
A man made for peace, carved through war.
Book I, How I, Earl Jenkins, Got Mixed up with a Bunch of sword-swingin´ Saints”
Tapio Tiihonen

Tapio Tiihonen
“Where the Devil Loses His Lawn Ornament
From marble to mudbrick, after stirrups & shock, Jenkins/Aëtius and his ragtag knights — with blue blades & purple quills — haul back to Rome and seed Europe with Lady Concordia’s grandeur, the Invincible Blaze.”
Tapio Tiihonen, From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot

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