How My Grandmother Changed the Course of History
A Great Migration Story
4 min readAug 14, 2021
My grandmother moved North, so she didn’t have to keep working on the farm. She journeyed first to Philadelphia to live with a cousin, then to Maryland, where she worked for the State of Maryland for 36 years. Technically, Maryland is still the South, so, in one way, she did not get as far away from the South as she wanted. But, she did…