Poetry of the Great Migration

"ONE WAY TICKET" BY LANGSTON HUGHES
http://www.pbs.org/gointochicago/art/index.html

"BOUND NO'TH BLUES" BY LANGSTON HUGHES
http://www.pbs.org/gointochicago/art/hughes2.html

"THE LAND OF HOPE" BY WILLIAME CROSSE
http://www.pbs.org/gointochicago/art/crosse1.html

"TIMES IS GETTIN' HARDER" BY LUCIOUS CURTIS
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5333/

"IT'S GREAT TO BE A PROBLEM" BY J.J.WORK
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1138.htm

DOCUMENT TOPICS

Crop Failure

Sharecropping

Lynchings

Racism

Jim Crow

Letters

Migration

Life up North

Labor

World War I

Writings of DuBois

Poetry

Images

Chicago Riot

Census Data

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