Footsteps articles from September 2002

Footsteps archives from September 2002

A call to move.
September 1, 2002... There is a storm of our people toward the North and especially to your city.... Will you please assist us in securing places as we are anxious to come but want jobs before we leave? We want to do any kind of honest labor. Our chance here is so...

The promised land.
September 1, 2002... Between 1910 and 1940, close to two million African Americans left the South for the cities of the North and West. Just prior to this period, 90 percent of all African Americans lived in the South, and 75 percent of them (approximately...

Word help wanted.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... During the period known as the Great Migration, African Americans moved to cities in great numbers seeking employment. Can you move the 12 jobs listed on the bottom of this page into the grid in alphabetical order from top to bottom? Your goal...

Jacob Lawrence's migration series. (At the Museum).
September 1, 2002... Do you like to draw? Tell stories? Read about the past? Observe your world? The renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence did. Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lawrence moved to Harlem in New York City when he was 13. As a...

Where opportunity awaits.
September 1, 2002... The Thomas family arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1917. Like thousands of other black southerners moving north, they first had to find a home. For a week, they pounded the pavements of the city's South Side. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, their...

Clashes in the street.(conflicts during early 20th-century African American migration )
September 1, 2002... Whenever large groups of people move from one place to another, problems and tensions are apt to arise. Where are the newcomers to live? To work? Problems such as these can be solved if people sit down to sort out their differences....

The second wave.
September 1, 2002... Black migration from the South continued beyond the Defender's initial call to move. In the 1920s, more than 800,000 African Americans moped to the North. Many also went west, and even though they did so in smaller numbers, the increase...

Kansas Fever exodus.
September 1, 2002... Although the phrase "Great Migration" mostly describes the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North from about 1916-1919, there had been other migrations of large numbers of freed African Americans out of the South....

Heading to the city.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Settlement patterns of African Americans during the 20th century are complicated. While hundreds of thousands of blacks moved from the rural South to northern cities, thousands more moved westward, to cities such as Los Angeles, Oakland, San...

Poetry on the move.
September 1, 2002... At times, the best way to express how you feel about an article or book you've read is to write something yourself. Here are a few easy ideas for creating poems about the Great Migration. You need: Try a "Rainbow" Poem Directions. ...

Letters home. (Reflections and Memories).
September 1, 2002... When the Promised Land beckoned, many of the migrants who answered the call recorded their experiences in reports, articles, and letters to the communities they left behind. These accounts help us understand what it must have been like to move...

Helping hands: the National Urban League.
September 1, 2002... As more and more African Americans from the rural South arrived in northern cities during the Great Migration, their crowded and often unhealthy living conditions attracted attention. Several organizations emerged in the early 1900s to help...

The migrations legacy.
September 1, 2002... Without question, both the first and the second Great Migrations reshaped America. The activities of African American migrants shifted the color line in America and set in motion a process that reached its peak in the Civil Rights Movement of...

Going home. (Then and Now).
September 1, 2002... Patricia Williams, a columnist for North Carolina's Charlotte News and Observer, lived in the North for 25 years before returning "home" in 1987. "We're coming back because we have an emotional investment in this place and because things have...

`Soul food': an eating good time.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Do you know what Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans, the Florida Avenue Grill near Howard University in Washington, D.C., and London's Sweet Georgia Brown have in common? Answer: Soul Food "Soul food" is a cuisine that combines the...

Corn bread, the staff of life.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Cornmeal can be transformed into muffins, corn pone, hoecakes, or hush puppies. In the 1800s and early 1900s, corn bread was the favorite for many African Americans. Some families baked and ate cornbread every day. They might use white or...

Jacob Lawrence key.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Here's the key to the paintings from Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series that are used in this issue. Given is each panel number and the caption Lawrence wrote for the panel. Front cover: Panel I: During the World War there was a great...

Black History. (Your Pages).(Poem)
September 1, 2002... Black History Before Lincoln was president, Long, long ago A lot of people were kept as slaves. Carrying iron and ordered to hoe. "Keep working," called the master with a loud scary voice. Hard working but...

Louis Armstrong. (Your Pages).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... July 4, 1905, Louis Armstrong was born. He was born and raised in New Orleans. His achievement was he was the world's greatest jazz cornet and trumpet player. In the 1920s he did that, He became a famous singer with his well known voice. His...

Cape Verde. (Your Pages).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Claryman Timas Alfred J. Gomes school New Bedford, Massachusetts CAPE VERDE This girl picked up water from the ocean in a bucket. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dagnir DePina Alfred J. Gomes...

Atlas of American Migration.
September 1, 2002... by Stephen A. Flanders (Facts On File, 1998) begins with pre-Columbian migration and continues through to suburban migration since 1945. Detailed maps, charts, and diagrams, as well as contemporary illustrations, make this book a valuable...

A Chance to Make Good, African Americans 1900-1929.
September 1, 2002... by James R. Grossman (The Young Oxford History of African Americans, Volume 7--Oxford University Press, 1997) accompanies the well-written and well-researched text with contemporary photos and illustrations that bring the trials and triumphs of...

Land of Hope.
September 1, 2002... by James R. Grossman (University of Chicago Press, 1989) provides an excellent, detailed portrayal of the migration of Southern blacks to Chicago.

More Great African American Children's Books.
September 1, 2002... by Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) includes descriptions of more than 400 titles, 200 additional recommendations, and indexes by title, topic, author, and illustrator.

Story Painter, the Life of Jacob Lawrence.
September 1, 2002... by John Duggleby (Chronicle Books, 1998) is an excellent biography in easy-to-understand language, accompanied by a well-chosen variety of images that include his paintings and contemporary photos.

Jacob Lawrence: the Migration Series.
September 1, 2002... edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner (The Rappahannock Press in association with The Phillips Collection, 1993) includes, in addition to the 60 paintings in the series, an overview of Lawrence's life and painting techniques, as well as his...

On the net. (More About).
September 1, 2002... To check out the Library of Congress's African American mosaic on the Great Migration, with links to related sites, hit: www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html For a look at an interesting site developed as part of the Great Migration...