The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit

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par Kendra D. Boyd, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s. Yet, the traditional narrative of the migration as a movement of laborers seeking high-wage jobs obscures the history of African Americans who moved north or west seeking entrepreneurial opportunities.

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