PART ONE IN THE LAND OF THE FOREFATHERS          1  (16)
    Leaving                                        3  (5)
    The Great Migration, 1915-1970                 8  (9)
  PART TWO BEGINNINGS                              17 (164)
    Ida Mae Brandon Gladney                        19 (17)
    The Stirrings of Discontent                    36 (11)
    George Swanson Starling                        47 (25)
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster                  72 (23)
    A Burdensome Labor                             95 (29)
    The Awakening                                  124(41)
    Breaking Away                                  165(16)
  PART THREE EXODUS                                181(42)
    The Appointed Time of Their Coming             183(22)
    Crossing Over                                  205(18)
  PART FOUR THE KINDER MISTRESS                    223(210)
    Chicago                                        225(2)
    New York                                       227(3)
    Los Angeles                                    230(8)
    The Things They Left Behind                    238(4)
    Transplanted in Alien Soil                     242(18)
    Divisions                                      260(25)
    To Bend in Strange Winds                       285(17)
    The Other Side of Jordan                       302(30)
    Complications                                  332(19)
    The River Keeps Running                        351(13)
    The Prodigals                                  364(7)
    Disillusionment                                371(14)
    Revolutions                                    385(28)
    The Fullness of the Migration                  413(20)
  PART FIVE AFTERMATH                              433(94)
    In the Places They Left                        435(10)
    Losses                                         445(10)
    More North and West Than South                 455(10)
    Redemption                                     465(16)
    And, Perhaps, to Bloom                         481(10)
    The Winter of Their Lives                      491(25)
    The Emancipation of Ida Mae                    516(11)
Epilogue                                           527(12)
Notes on Methodology                               539(6)
Afterword                                          545(2)
Acknowledgments                                    547(8)
Notes                                              555(34)
Index                                              589(32)
Permissions Acknowledgments                        621