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Also in 1838, Pennsylvania's newly ratified constitution officially disfranchised African Americans. [7] In 1842, white mobs again attacked blacks during the Lombard Street Riots. Despite the risks and racism they encountered, African-Americans continued to come to Philadelphia, since it was the closest major city to the Southern States, where ...
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]
Pages in category "African-American history of Pennsylvania" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Although all could speak Spanish, it was a melting pot of mostly Native Americans with some Spanish, Portuguese, Basques, Jewish, North African Berbers, and Africans. Former Mexican territories joined the United States in 1848 in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , [ 26 ] which ended war between Mexico and the United States.
The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological and epidemiological study of African Americans in Philadelphia that was written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published in 1899 with the intent of identifying social problems present in the African American community.
Pennsylvania also experienced the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans migrated from the southern United States to other locations in the United States. By 1940, African Americans made up almost five percent of the state's population.
Migration to Pennsylvania. ... In 2022, about 2.5% of Americans lived in a different state than they did the year before, according to the Census Bureau’s latest estimates. That accounts for ...
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...