Cane

by

Jean Toomer

Great Migration

Between 1910 and 1970, approximately 6 million Black people emigrated from the rural South, a movement now known as the Great Migration. Black people fled the South in such numbers because of the threat of… read analysis of Great Migration

Jim Crow

Named after a pejorative caricature of Black culture, “Jim Crow” laws were a collection of state and local statues enforcing racial segregation in the American South. Immediately following the Civil War, during what is now… read analysis of Jim Crow