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Why People Move: The Great Migration
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Materials
- Exhibition’s Great Migration Map (physical or virtual — minimuseumproject.org/exhibitions/harlem-renaissance)
- Optional: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series images (free to view on the Phillips Collection and MoMA websites)
- Differentiated student handouts
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Brainstorm 5 min
Ask students to brainstorm: what reasons might cause people to leave their homes? Collect responses on the board without comment. Then reveal: between 1910 and 1940, over one million Black Americans left the South — the largest internal migration in American history at that time.