Proper noun
the Great Migration
(US, historical) The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated. Isabel Wilkerson
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. Isabel Wilkerson
According to the 1960 census, the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American was 28%; many blacks had left the state in the Great Migration, and new generations of whites had come from migration and immigration. Source: Internet
After 100 years of African-Americans leaving the south in large numbers seeking better opportunities in the west and north ( Great Migration ), there is now a reverse trend. Source: Internet
A further cause for weakened family and marital ties was seen in the unsettling effects of the Great Migration and in the economic transformation Finland experienced during the 1960s and the 1970s. Source: Internet
Anderson, R.C. (2000) The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol I (1995). Source: Internet