The Making of "Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century" observer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from observer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Of course they went in part to escape racial violence and inequality in America, the Black artists who looked to the Nordic countries as a creative safe haven in the 20th century, but there was more to it than that.