Postmarked on August 25, 1916, this postcard foreshadowed the next century of expansion when describing the University as a place "where some 30 buildings have been erected and are constantly increased."
A housing crisis, combined with White resistance to Black settlement, created high rents and overcrowding for migrants in the first wave of the Great Migration.
Southern African American migrants shared a complex relationship with Philadelphia’s middle-class Black families with multigenerational ties to the city.
