Web site features African American Migration

Information Outlook, March, 2005

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, a new Web site, includes more than 16,500 pages of information on the peoples, places, and the events that have shaped African America's migration traditions of the past 400 years.

Created by New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the site makes accessible to the general public essays, books, articles, manuscripts, illustrations, lesson plans, and maps.

The project is made possible in part by a $2.4 million dollar grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Other project components include the book In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, released by National Geographic in January; a Black History Month education kit composed of illustrations, and photographs, maps, lesson plans, and a bibliography; and an exhibition at the Schomburg Center.

Through images, maps, narratives, and music, the exhibition presents, chronicles, and interprets the migratory movements that have formed and transformed the African-American community and the nation in the last century. The site is www.inmotionaame.org.