| | Series Foreword | p. vii |
| | Preface | p. ix |
| | Introduction: Black Migration and the African Diaspora | p. xi |
| | Chronology | p. xxv |
| | African American Migration after 1865 | p. 1 |
| | Going North: The Great Migration, 1910-1930 | p. 33 |
| | Black Migrants in the Metropolises of America | p. 57 |
| | Migrants and Migration during the Great Depression and World War II | p. 93 |
| | "And the Migrants Kept Coming": The Second Migration, 1945-1965 | p. 125 |
| | Migrants and Civil Rights Cities | p. 153 |
| | Epilogue: Overlapping Migrations in the Black Diaspora, 1975-2005 | p. 193 |
| | Selected Bibliography | p. 209 |
| | Index | p. 223 |