We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving
home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their
dreams and their children, to make a better life.
In this beautiful collection of poems and collage artwork, award winners
Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist gracefully depict the
experiences of families like their own, who found the courage to leave
their homes behind during the Great Migration and make new lives for
themselves elsewhere.
When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved from their
home in Parmele, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C. Before Jan Spivey
Gilchrist was born, her mother moved from Arkansas and her father moved
from Mississippi. Both settled in Chicago, Illinois. Though none of them
knew it at the time, they had all become part of the Great Migration.
The Great Migration concludes with a bibliography.