Meeting Milwaukee's 'Great Migrants' and Their Southern Roots

During the early to mid-1900s, the Great Migration brought millions of African-Americans from rural, southern towns to cities like Chicago, Detroit, and of course, Milwaukee. To this day, many older, black Milwaukeeans have roots in the South. Many moved here as teens and young adults, looking for work in an industrial city that overflowed with jobs at the time. During the '60s and '70s, "Milwaukee was a relatively booming industrial economy, with jobs that were accessibly to modestly skilled