A New Yorker in Atlanta, a Mississippian in Chicago, a Nigerian in Houston, and a Haitian in Miami.
"This will serve as a catalyst for the continued re-thinking of who the African-American community is. For the first time, here's a project that explores the extraordinary diversity of the African-American community. This is organized around 13 migrations, 2 of them involuntary: the domestic slave trade and the trans-Atlantic slave trade."
A quote from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture director Howard Dodson in Felicia R. Lee's registration-required New York Times article "Black Migration, Both Slave and Free" on its exhibition "In Motion: The African American Migratory Experience"
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