The Birth of a League

Destination Freedom Destination Freedom Prometrizations of the great democratic traditions of the Niko people is brought to you by station WMAU in cooperation with the Chicago Urban League as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own Destination Freedom Before the beginning of World War one there was started a mass migration within the United States

That was destined to involve two million souls It was a shift of two million Negro citizens from southern regions to northern cities, and it radically offered the social and economic course of the country. In a chapter entitled, The Birth of a League, destination freedom tells the story of the greatest internal migration in American history, and the story of the league which was organized

as a result of it. That'll be young buddy Laney here, Wishland, kicking up the dust with his brother, JC. too lanky even in the new youth who were hiking it back home to barham a sippy that year guess it was nineteen oh nine or maybe eight anyway it was the year the migration started for me

though some say it had been going on all the time had been going on heavy even before the civil war when old harry at tumblin ran the underground railroad maybe it picked up a bit after the reconstruction when the Ku Klux Klan became the law of the land But for me and my generation around Burrow, it started just like this.

Buddy and JC came swinging down the road that pockets full of the money they'd made work in the year in the sawmill at Raymond. They hadn't seen a newspaper, I heard a word about what had happened in Burrow in over six months.