This blog post was written for the Loudoun Museum in Leesburg, VA. It examines one African American school teacher’s experience of the Great Migration during the first decades of the 20th century. It discusses the reasons she and others from Loudoun County made their way to Montclair, N.J., why some returned home, and the impact their time in the North had on their lives and those of others in Loudoun. Research for this blog draws on oral histories conducted by the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library and therefore focuses on those migrants who came back to Loudoun.

Read the Blog Post Here.