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The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...
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]
Today, there is a noticeable shift in Black Americans moving from Northern metro areas to the Southern cities. Take Chicago, for example, which has historically been an economic capital for Black ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, numerous black people from Chicago began to move to suburbs south of the city to improve their housing. Industry job losses hit those towns, too, and many people have left the area altogether. [14] Chicago lost population from 1970 to 1990, with some increases as of the 2000 census, and decreases again from 2000 to 2005 ...
From the 1910s to the 1960s, millions of Black Americans took part in the Great Migration, moving to northern cities to escape the overt racism of the Jim Crow South.
While the Northern black communities such as Chicago and New York City were already well-established from the first Great Migration, relocating to the West was a new destination for the migrants in places like the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland, Phoenix, and the Puget Sound region in Washington. Once they arrived, they were met ...
Chicago has been scrambling to find housing for the nearly 20,000 migrants who have arrived since August 2022, many in buses sent from the Mexican border by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
The longer African immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to live in suburban areas. In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are officially 40,000 African immigrants, although it has been estimated that the population is actually four times this number when considering undocumented immigrants. The majority of these ...