The Great Migration

Stolen from Africa

The Great Migration
X – I = Nine Principles of the Chicago Defender

Allen

The Migration – From Montgomery to Detroit
Eliza’s Children Move North
R – RELOCATING North, Eliza’s Family
Keeping in Touch in Detroit
The Great Migration in Poetry
Jennie Turner

Graham

Mershell C. Graham on the Porch
S – SHELL, Bound for the Promised Land
Prologue: Montgomery
The Land of Hope
One Way Ticket
The Steamer “Eastern States” – 1917

Rev. E.E. Scott
Founding Plymouth
Founders
Edward M. Dale – Scott’s letter 1917
Edward A. & Alixe Harris– Directory Detroit 1919
Joseph Shannon – Detroit Directory 1919
Thomas Benjamin – 1911 436 Clinton, Detroit Directory. Col’d porter
Thelma Benjamin – 1919 Detroit directory
Moses L. Thompson & Carrie L. Thompson – Scott’s letter 1917
Louis C Farley – directory 1919 384 Orleans, laborer

Blakley – Beckwith Marriage
The Proposal
The Proposal accepted
Announcement of Marriage
Mershell Graham and Fannie Mae Turner Marriage License
Graham-Turner Wedding – 1919 Montgomery Alabama
A Mouse Machine & Mrs. Topp
Chickens in Detroit 1919

Grahams in the 1920 Census

Letters from home – Montgomery to Detroit 1918
Those Left Behind
Lewis Gilmer
Rufus Taylor
Nan Taylor
3 Men in Hats
Ula Mae’s Uncle Lowndes Adams
Lowndes Adams
Lowndes Adams Found in 1965 – Migration Story Part 5

Clifton Graham
Mattie Graham

Reed

A is for Anna Allen Reed
Y – YET More Migrations – The migration paths of my grandmother Pearl Reed Cleage’s family

Cleage

T – TRAVELING from the South up North – Cleage
James Cleage 1870 – 1933
Josephine “Josie” Cleage