This article builds on the scholarship of Black urban history in general and the Great Migrations in particular. It examines the migration, community-building, class consciousness, and sociopolitical activist efforts of African American migrants who made their way to Houston, Texas, from farms, small towns, and medium sized cities in eastern Texas and Louisiana between 1914 and 1941. It defines migration to Houston as a form of accommodation-activism, one of many vehicles used by people of color to gradually achieve socioeconomic, sociopolitical, spiritual, personal, and racial autonomy. Relying on themselves and the chain migration networks of others, these individuals and families decisively abandoned their birthplaces for better wages, quality schools, decent homes, improved lifestyles, advanced social equality, and civil rights in industrializing Houston.