Departing for Chicago Part 3
Waiting for the train, 1928, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library
Between World War I and 1941, more than 1.5 million African-Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North and Midwest. It represents one of the greatest movement of people in modern history. A higher standard of living, better educational opportunities, and access to improved social, economic, and political institutions worked to pull African-Americans like Tennessee native Dr. Alvenia Fulton (1893-1999) to purchase a one-way train ticket to Chicago.
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