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The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit

  • Written by Kendra D. Boyd, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University
The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built DetroitThe flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942.Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-ND

Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s. Yet, the traditional narrative of the migration as a movement of laborers...

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