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Dr. Shepherd W. McKinley is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches North Carolina history and heads the History Department’s educational outreach efforts.

Resources created by Shepherd W. McKinley

The Great Migration and North Carolina
In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 5.5
During the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century, more than a million African Americans left the South for northern cities, where they took advantage of economic opportunities and created thriving communities.
Format: article
By Shepherd W. McKinley and Cynthia Risser.