Before Staples was born, his parents moved from rural Virginia to Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of the Great Migration of blacks to industrial cities in the North and Midwest.
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His parents Thomas Jones and Clara Law moved to Detroit as part of the Great Migration.
In several essays included in the anthology The New Negro (1925), which grew out of the 1924 special issue of Survey Graphic on Harlem, editor Alain Locke contrasted the "Old Negro" with the "New Negro" by stressing African American assertiveness and self-confidence during the years following World War I and the Great Migration.
In particular, current Fellow Robert Charles Anderson is director of The Great Migration Study Project, an effort to catalogue the earliest European immigrants to New England.
Jaspa's Journey—The Great Migration is a children's fantasy adventure written by Dr. Rich Meyrick and published in 2009 by DreamCatcher Publishing in Saint John, New Brunswick.