In Motion; The African-American Migration Experience
February 1st, 2005Today’s partial explanation for one year of silence is In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience. When I left my job as Web Coordinator for NYPL’s The Branch Libraries to become Assistant Director for Technology for NYPL’s Digital Library Program it was in part to get this site out the door. This joint Digital Library Program and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture project is…
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism.