(transitive, US, historical) Of an African-American: to leave a state in the Southern United States as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
(transitive, US, historical) Of an African-American: to leave a state in the Southern United States as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
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(US, historical, also, attributive) An African-American who migrated from a state along the Mississippi River in the Southern United States to Kansas, mostly between 1879 and 1881 during the Reconstruction era.
(dated, 1920s, United States, slang) To leave or depart.
(US, historical) The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
(transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
(US, urban studies) The migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas to suburbs and newly constructed homes on the outer edges of cities.