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In 1900, only 740,000 African Americans lived outside the South, just 8% of the nation's total Black population. By 1970, more than 10.6 million African Americans lived outside the South, 47% of the nation's total. [32]: 18 Because the migrants concentrated in the big cities of the north and west, their influence was magnified in those places.
First and Second Great Migrations shown through changes in African American share of population in major U.S. cities, 1916–1930 and 1940–1970. In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West.
A third migration appears to be underway, this time with African Americans from the North and West moving back to the South in record numbers. [46] While race relations are still a contentious issue in the South and elsewhere in the U.S., the region surpasses the rest of the country in many areas of integration and racial equality.
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 ...
The sound quality of African-American music distinguishes itself because of its African sentiments that are foreign to Western patterns. [55] Maultsby describes how in Africa and the black diaspora, black musicians have managed to cultivate an array of unique sounds that imitate nature, animals, spirits, and speech into their music. [ 54 ]
Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (LSU Press, 1986) major scholarly survey with detailed bibliography; online free to borrow. Lindsey, Lydia. "Black Lives Matter: Grace P. Campbell and Claudia Jones—An analysis of the Negro Question, Self-Determination, Black Belt Thesis." Journal of Pan African Studies 12.9 (2019): 110–144.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is a 2010 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.The book provides a detailed historical account of the Great Migration, a movement of approximately six million African Americans from the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast, and West between 1915 and 1970.
Of the 82,000 South Africans living in the US between 2008 and 2009, about 11,000 of them were Black South Africans. [7] In the 2000 Census, 509 South African Americans reported their ethnic origins as Zulu. [8] The majority of these immigrants are English speaking, with a moderate proportion of these being South African Jews.