All throughout African American history, leaving has been a form of refusal — something Black people have done in response to White supremacy for centuries.
Flight is one of the most common actions in the history of Black resistance.
Everything in the South depended on enslaved labor.
Cities were already fragile from White flight: White families that were not interested in integration left cities for the suburbs decades earlier, in the 1940s and 1950s.
But in America, as a Black American, what is home?
Persons:
Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael, Denise Kellen ’, “, Read, ” Marvin Germain, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B, Wells, Jackson, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Mabel, Robert Williams
Organizations:
of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, CNN, American, Poor, Mortgage, realtors, Act, Europe, NAACP, Black Panthers
Locations:
Canada, Ghana, Portugal, Charleston, Georgia, Virginia, Midwest, Northeast, West Coast ., masse, White, United States, States, Europe, Cuba, China, Detroit, Tanzania, Algeria, America