Ellora Derenoncourt on Shortcomings of the Great Migration

A new piece from Inequality.org cites research by affiliate Ellora Derenoncourt to explain the shortcomings of the Great Migration. Resulting from the racist violence of 1919’s “Red Summer,” in addition to policies driving de-industrialization, ghettoization of African Americans, white flight, and mass incarceration, outcomes for third-generation Black children in the North today look no better than outcomes for their Southern counterparts. Read the article here.