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The Great Migration was one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements in history—perhaps the greatest not caused by the immediate threat of execution or starvation. In sheer numbers, it outranks the migration of any other ethnic group— Italians or Irish or Jews or Poles —to the United States.
White flight or white exodus [1] [2] [3] is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States .
Young people between the ages of 15 and 30 were predominant among newcomers. In this wave of migration, constituting the third episode in the history of U.S. immigration, nearly 25 million Europeans made the long trip. Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, and other Slavs made up the bulk of this migration, with 2.5 to 4 million Jews being among ...
A specific mass migration that is seen as especially influential to the course of human cultural and anthropomorphic history may be referred to as a 'great migration'. For example, great migrations include the Indo-European migrations to Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia during the Bronze Age, the Bantu migrations across sub-Saharan Africa, Barbarian invasions during the Roman Empire ...
There was also a political dimension; a contagious theory of disease called for aggressive public health measures, which meant taxes and regulation the business community rejected. [93] Before the 1880s, most experts believed in the "Miasma theory" which attributed the spread of disease to "bad air" caused by the abundance of dirt and animal ...
Obama: The 1980s Called, They Want Their Policy Back. DailyFinance Staff. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:40 PM.
As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a ...
Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002). Gregory, James. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1991). Lemann, Nicholas.