LibGuides: Migration History: Internal Migration

Native American History

American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new window
"Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals." (Adam Matthew)
"The wide range of material included in American Indian Histories and Cultures presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world."

"The Ayer collection is truly vast, containing 130,000 volumes, over one million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings. The collection covers not only American Indian history, but archaeology, voyages, exploration and accounts of early America, the development of cartography, Philippine and Hawaiian history, and Central and South American history (Adam Matthew)."
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new window
"Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism." (Gale)
Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton/Leslie & Company This link opens in a new window
"This collection is the most complete ethnographic collection available for the study of the American Indians of the Southeast." (Gale)

Microforms at Fondren Library

Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1865-72

Call Number: E185.2 .A4 microform

Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration

Print Guide: Gov Ref F215 .R42

Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929

Call Number: E185.63 .B63 microfilm

Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945

Call Number: HD4875 .U5 P46 microform

Travels in the New South

Call Number: F215 .T73 microform

Internal Migration African Americans

The African-American Mosaic Migrations
A few of the Library of Congress's resources on African American internal migration, such as the movement west and the Great Migration

Japanese Internment

Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946 This link opens in a new window
"This collection provides demographic information on the "evacuees" resident at the various relocation camps." (Gale)
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives On Day-To-Day Life This link opens in a new window
These archives pertain to "the forced internment, during World War II, of an important segment of the American population-persons of Japanese descent. This collection, consisting of 25 individual titles, documents life in the internment camps." (Gale)
Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
"This publication consists of the documents from The Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Small Collections, 'Japanese American Internment Collections,' in the custody of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y." (Gale)
Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981 This link opens in a new window
"This publication consists of the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission’s inquiry." (Gale)

Movement West

American West This link opens in a new window
"Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection will act as a dynamic teaching and research resource. Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters are well represented, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon. Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well documented including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape... The growth of railway and road networks can be explored through maps and through records of key railroad companies. Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps enable scholars to understand the phenomenon of Westward expansion... There are rich resources for the study of Texas, Mexico and the South. Literary and historical works - as well as contemporary newspapers and posters - enable a better understanding of the real and mythic West - with first hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws." (Adam Matthew)

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
“For nearly forty years the photographs of Solomon D. Butcher and the letters of Uriah W. Oblinger and his family have been used to tell the story of settlement on the Great Plains in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Butcher's images visually document the settlers, their homesteads, and worldly goods in the harsh environment of the Nebraska Sand Hills. The Oblinger collection gives a voice to Butcher's photographs, in letters that not only express the hopes and fears of many homesteaders, but also offer candid descriptions of daily life on the prairie. The intellectual content of each collection is substantial and together they provide a compelling look at a pivotal time in the history of the American West.” (Library of Congress)
Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846–1869
“a collection of the original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon, California, Oregon, and Montana trails who wrote while traveling on the trail”
Nebraska Western Trails
“Find a wide range of artifacts, books, documents, maps, postcards, original paintings, and photographs on a variety of topics relating to trails in Nebraska. Collected into a searchable database from the holdings of museums and libraries across Nebraska (Nebraska Western Trails Partner Sites), these images illustrate Nebraska's rich trails of all types--pioneer wagon trails, railroads, highways, nature trails, and modern recreational trails.”