During the Great Migration, Black people relocated North in search of better paying jobs and to distance themselves from racial oppression and violence in the South and Appalachian counties.
Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), co-organizers of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, announced the groundbreaking .
With the work of a dozen artists, "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" at the Baltimore Museum of Art explores the exodus of some 6 million Black Americans who left the South to resettle in northern cities.
With the work of a dozen artists, "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" at the Baltimore Museum of Art explores the exodus of some 6 million Black Americans who left the South to resettle in northern cities.