Migration is a key theme in African American Studies. AP African American Studies explores the role of migration (forced and voluntary) in the development of African diaspora communities and the evolution of African American communities in the United States.

The maps of Southern Journey are organized as a collection of StoryMaps. You will use parts TWO and THREE to analyze historical and spatial data from the Great Migration.  Use the scroll bar to move between decades on the maps and to answer the following questions:

• Migration has been essential to Black life in America. How did these migratory patterns change after emancipation and what motivated these changes? 
• What patterns do you see related to the outmigration (blue) and inmigration (copper) of enslaved people in the early 19th century? (Part TWO).
• How do these migration patterns change as you compare the maps in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries? (Part THREE).
• What other patterns or connections do you see as you navigate the map?
• What patterns do you see as you compare the data from different locations?

Use the maps to identify one or more economic, environmental, or social reasons African Americans migrated North during the Great Migration.