The Great Migration Vol. 1 — Why They Left: The Push, the Pull, and the Call North (KID-FRIENDLY EDITION — Interactive)

Black history books for young readers and families — The Great Migration Vol. 1: Why They Left: The Push, the Pull, and the Call North (KID-FRIENDLY EDITION). Jim Crow, sharecropping debt, boll weevils, the 1927 flood, and the word that spread north — why about six million people (attributed range 6 to 6.5 million where numbers are discussed) chose to leave, and how they decided. Written for younger readers in read-aloud-friendly language, with picture cues and a Talk About It prompt in every chapter — same facts, same chapters, same receipts. Inside the Interactive Edition: the complete book — all 6 chapters, full text · recorded narration by Marcus — 22 minutes 2 seconds, every chapter read aloud · a chronological timeline that jumps to the chapter behind each date · a 10-question educator quiz drawn strictly from the text · every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — contested numbers are printed as attributed ranges, never as tidy single figures. The chapters: A Country That Promised, Then Took It Back · The Ledger That Never Balanced: Sharecropping and Debt · Boll Weevils, Flood Water, and Fear · A Paper That Said "Come": The Chicago Defender and the Word-of-Mouth Wire · Jobs With Wages: War, Labor Agents, and the Northern Offer · The Decision: Selling Up, Splitting Up, and the One-Way Ticket. For educators: a TEKS correlation sheet for this volume maps it against the adopted Texas standards, claiming only what the sheet claims. These materials make a classroom eligible and well-supported; they do not claim district adoption.