Genealogy is generally the search for ancestors who moved to where we are now. But some family members emigrated away to other countries instead.  One example of this “reverse” migration was the flow of Black Americans to France between WWI and WWII.  In this first part of a two-part series, we’ll explore the history of this extraordinary event. The chaos and change of war don’t end when the war does.  They continue to cause disruption for years afterward.  In U.S. history, after the Civil War and Reconstruction ended, Jim Crow laws and violence against African Americans began. This resulted in the Great Migration–the largest internal migration event in our history. …