The second lesson module in this book explores the theme of migration and movement in history. In the article, Dr. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin explores the ways in which African Americans have fought to control their right to mobility as a key tenet of democracy In the lesson module, Amy Page explores the stories and communities of African Americans who moved West to establish all-Black communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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