Directors' Foreword / Christopher Bedford and Betsy Bradley -- Introduction / Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis -- I. Between Town and Metropolis : The Great Migration and the American City. "A Review of the Year of 1918," 1918 ; Blyden Jackson, introduction to Black Exodus : The Great Migration from the American South, 1991 ; "Race Labor Leaving," 1916 ; "Big Exodus of Negroes," 1916 ; Philip Dray, excerpts from Capitol Men : The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen, 2008 ; "The Negro in Local Politics," 1903 ; "The Negro and Politics," 1899 ; Ralph W. Tyler, "Jackson an Oasis in the Desert of the South," 1914 ; "Negro Doctors in Miss. Since Reconstruction," and "Negro Lawyers in Mississippi Since Reconstuction," 1963 ; "Escaping Slaves," 1916 ; Letter from H.L. Remmel to Henry C. Wallace, 1923 ; "Some Problems of Migration," 1923 ; William O. Scroggs, "Interstate Migration of Negro Population," 1917 ; "Bricks Hurled Through Church Window in Md.," 1925 ; "The Tulsa Riots," 1921 ; "Negro Land-Owners," 1884 ; "Churches Lead Hate Crusade," 1945 ; '"Hundreds Buy Own Homes Under Plan," 1950 ; Thomas H. Ringgold, "Ringgold's Store a Mecca for Many Maryland Notables," 1932 ; "Checking Migration," 1919 ; Vann R. Newkirk II, "The Great Land Robbery," 2019 ; Mississippi Power Company, "The More Abundant Life : Open Letter to Mississippians," 1958 ; W.O. Saunders, "Why Jim Crow is Flying North," 1923 ; Lue Ella Pennington, excerpt from "The Outer Pocket," 1924 ; David Ward Howe, "The Observation Post : White Southerners Now Moving North," 1939 ; "White House, Biddle Deny Plan To Restrict Migration," 1943 ; Edward L. Ayers, excerpts from Southern Journey : The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020, 2020 ; W E.B. Du Bois, excerpts from The Philadelphia Negro : A Social Study, 1889 ; Gene Reid, "Study Finds Lung Cancer High in Black Migrants," 1975 ; "Lost in Migration," 1924 ; "When You Come North," 1925 ; "South Now Trying to Stop Migration by Legislation," 1927 ; "40,000 to Baltimore," 1963 ; "Migration Costs State Over 400,000," 1961 ; "Plants Must Hire Negroes, Manpower Chief Says," 1942 ; "South Hurt by Labor Shortage," 1923 ; "Most Negroes Per Sq. Mile in D.C.," 1926 ; "Basically Colored Counties Drop to 180 with Migration," 1945 ; St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton, excerpts from Black Metropolis : A Study of Negro Life in a Northern, 1945 ; "3rd of Negoes Going to Chicago Are from State," 1962 ; Charles Leavelle, "Green Pastures of WPA Entice Negroes to City," 1938 ; Bernadette Pruitt, "In Search of Freedom : Black Migration to Houston, 1914-1945," 2005 ; "The Year 1943," 1944 ; "Exodus : 1960 Style," 1962 ; Dennis Wrong, "Portrait of a Decade : what the census will show about us in the turbulent sixties," 1970 ; Isabel Wilkerson, "The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration," 2016.