The Great Migration Vol. 1 — Why They Left: The Push, the Pull, and the Call North (STANDARD COMPANION EDITION — EPUB)

Black history books for readers, classrooms, and homeschool — The Great Migration Vol. 1: Why They Left: The Push, the Pull, and the Call North (STANDARD COMPANION 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. The standard adult edition. The clean EPUB edition — all 6 chapters, full text, every chapter closing with its sources and a method note — readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone. (Narration, timeline, and quiz are in the Interactive Edition.) 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.