The African American Great Migration and Beyond

1. Who does Tolnay describe as the migrants who left the south and why?
2. What are some important factors that Tolnay describes as influencing potential destinations of southern migrants?
3. Where did the southern migrants go? How did they fare in their new home?
4. Tolnay argues that internal migration and residential mobility had important short and long-term impacts on individual Blacks, the Black community, and American society. What were they?
5. Why did some migrants begin to return south?