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    This album contains the sources and inquiry questions from the Online Colloquia held on March 23rd, as part of the Rural Experience in America (Part A). This Inquiry Design Model (IDM) focuses on exploring the Great Migration in the United States from 1910-1970, examining the reasons people moved from rural to urban areas and comparing living conditions. Here's a two-sentence summary:

    The IDM investigates whether people who moved to cities during the Great Migration (1910-1970) were better off than those who remained in rural areas, using primary sources to analyze social and economic conditions. Students engage with the topic through examining rural life, push/pull factors of migration, and urban living conditions, culminating in a performance task where they write persuasive letters arguing for or against moving from a rural area.

    Rural Migrations IDM

    This IDM was designed with the following compelling question: Were people who moved to cities during the Great Migration better off than those who moved to or remained in rural places?

     Supporting Question 1: What was life like in rural areas of the United States (1910-1970)? 

    1. South Unable to Put Stop to Negro Exodus, the Washington Times, Oct. 23, 1916.
    2. Dispatch from a Mississippi Colored Farmer’s Alliance (1889)
    3. Mississippi Black Code, 1865
    4. Photocopy of Historic Photograph, "Photomaps" Photographer, 1953: AERIAL VIEW OF NICODEMUS FROM NORTHEAST - Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS (1933)
    5. The Nicodemus Enterprise (Nicodemus, Kan.), November 16, 1887

    Supporting Question 2: What social and economic conditions led people to move during the Great Migrations (1910-1970)?

    1. A Century of Negro Migration, Carter G. Woodson, 1918. Pp. 126-140
    2. South Unable to Put Stop to Negro Exodus, the Washington Times, Oct. 23, 1916.
    3. The Homestead Act, 1862
    4. Interactive Migration Map
    5. An 1897 Letter from Henry B. Henegar, a wagon master employed by John Ross during the Trail of Tears
    6. Dust Bowl Farmer Raising Fence to keep it from being buried in the sand, 1936.
    7. Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History”, 1893

    Supporting Question 3: What were conditions like where these people moved? 

    1. Riot at the Soujourner Truth Homes, Detroit, Michigan, 1942
    2. Homeless Black Woman, 1921, Tulsa, OK
    3. Black Men Internment at Convention Hall, 1921, Tulsa, OK
    4. Four African American Women seated on the steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia, 1899-1900
    5. Dearfield, Colorado
    6. New York, New York, Harlem Apartment House, 1943 

      #Inquiry Starter Set.  

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