TH, as a black person in the early 1960’s living in a southern urban city, would migrate north.
The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. It began in 1940, through World War II, and lasted until 1970. The percentage of the African American population living in the American South shrunk from 77% in 1940 to 53% in 1970.