Category: Great Migration (African-American), Mississippi to Illinois

Categories: Great Migration (African-American)

This category holds profiles of Black Americans who migrated from Mississippi to Illinois during the Great Migration.

This category is managed by the US Black Heritage Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and US Black Heritage.


Person Profiles (39)

B

abt Mar 1882 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 29 Apr 1941
05 Feb 1943 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 13 Oct 1995
17 Jun 1912 Starkville, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States - 27 Apr 1994 photo

C

05 Sep 1927 Meridian, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States - 01 Apr 1962
1879 Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States
1844 Mississippi, United States
1930s - 2020s Privacy Level: Private with Public Biography and Family Tree (Yellow)

D

14 Apr 1917 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 28 Dec 2005
14 Jan 1919 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 15 Mar 2005
abt 1915 Mississippi, United States - bef 1998

E

19 Oct 1923 New Albany, Union, Mississippi, United States - 20 Jul 2006

G

09 Nov 1937 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 05 Jan 1942
10 Mar 1916 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - abt Jan 1982
22 Dec 1913 Glen Allan, Washington, Mississippi, United States - 24 Jul 1999

H

09 Aug 1918 Mississippi, United States - 30 Aug 1974
24 Jun 1916 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 07 Apr 1998
01 Aug 1928 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 11 Apr 1977
21 Dec 1915 Etta, Union, Mississippi, United States - 20 May 2005
28 Feb 1937 Myrtle, Union, Mississippi, United States - 31 Dec 2013

J

12 Aug 1955 Marshall County, Mississippi, United States - 13 Sep 2017
1940s - 2020s Privacy Level: Private with Public Family Tree (Yellow)

K

15 Jul 1926 Hattiesburg, Forrest, Mississippi, United States - 17 Nov 2009

L

1845 Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States - 27 Jan 1940

M

23 Feb 1899 Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States - 01 Jun 1932
abt Nov 1883 Mississippi, USA - Oct 1964
25 Nov 1862 Louisiana, United States - 06 Dec 1928

S

05 May 1928 Mississippi, United States - 06 Jan 1946

S cont.

26 Sep 1935 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 03 Mar 2003
28 Aug 1909 Mississippi, United States - 09 Dec 1942
23 May 1922 Abbeville, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 11 Dec 2004
28 Feb 1913 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 02 Jan 1994
27 Jan 1937 Mississippi, United States - 14 Oct 2008
09 Apr 1920 Oxford, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 29 Aug 1986
03 Dec 1883 Mississippi, United States - 1952

T

17 Jun 1906 Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States - 01 Mar 1966
25 Apr 1934 Abbeville, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States - 10 Dec 2017
05 Feb 1896 Sardis, Panola, Mississippi, United States - 23 Feb 1953

W

1851 Mississippi, United States

Y

abt 18 Apr 1878 Pocahontas, Hinds, Mississippi, United States - 24 Apr 1929




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