A South Side Story: How Joshua Allen’s “The Last Pair of Earlies” Chronicles the Struggles of the Great Migration

Newcity Stage: In the early-to-mid-twentieth century, the Great Migration brought more than a half-million African Americans to Chicago who hoped to escape the brutal oppression and economic depression of the Jim Crow South. While some thrived in some of the most vibrant Black neighborhoods in any American city of the time, others faltered in an over-promised land of inopportunity.