UK Researcher Dispels Myths Surrounding Great Migration

All this month we are visiting with Reinette Jones who along with colleague Rob Aken, oversee the UK Libraries’ Notable Kentucky African Americans Database – a free online resource for anyone who wants to know more about the history of our commonwealth.  The database is full of little known stories of achievement, injustice, and agency of African Americans, past and present, and today we are tackling a persistent myth surrounding a period in our nation’s history known as the Great Migration when millions of African Americans, whether escaping Jim Crow policies or simply seeking economic opportunities, relocated from the deep South to industrial cities in the North.