Cultural References

Cotton, death and the railroad. From Jim Crow to Chicago Blues.
The Great Migration was the movement of approximately six million Black Americans from the Southern United States to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states between 1910 and 1970. Driven by the desire to escape racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and pursue economic and educational opportunities, this mass migration reshaped the demographics and cultural landscape of the United States. From Mississippi that meant a train from Clarksdale Railroad Station in the Delta, to St. Louis and Chicago in the north on the Illinois and Central Gulf Railway.