Black southern migration of six million nationalized and urbanized segregationist ideas.

Evidence

Migrants faced segregation in the northern “receiving stations,” as journalist Isabel Wilkerson termed them in 2010. Racist Harlemites, for instance, organized to fight off what they called the “a growing menace” of “black hordes,” and ended up segregating their communities. Over the course of six decades, some 6 million Black southerners left their homes, transforming Black America from a primarily southern population to a national and urban one, and segregationist ideas became nationalized and urbanized in the process. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 809

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• SHARE: The figure that Black Harlemites themselves organized against ‘black hordes’ of southern migrants, ending in self-segregation, is a specific, surprising detail for someone interested in intra-racial housing dynamics.