Dec. 31, 1970 Black family arriving in Chicago in 1920 Credit: The New York Public Library photograph Between 1916 and 1970, more than 6 million Black Americans moved from the South to the North, the West and the Midwest, changing the landscape of the nation. Before “The Great Migration,” more than 90% of Black Americans lived in the South and only 20% lived in urban areas. By 1970, more than 80% of Black Americans lived in cities. In her Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson detailed how Black Americans left “the terror of Jim Crow” for “an uncertain existence in the North and Midwest.” In his book, “The Promised Land,” Nicholas Lehman
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