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The Great Migration was the widespread movement of millions of African Americans, beginning in the 1910s, from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West in the United States.
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.
The Great Migration was a exodus of around six million African Americans between 1915-1970 from the South to the North in an attempt to escape racist ideologies and practices, and to create new lives as American citizens.
The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illiniois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. By World War II the migrants continued to ...
The First Great Migration (1910-1940) Jade Bradford | Yusra Hamidaddin | Samara Reyna.
The Great Migration was thus key to the struggles and accomplishments of the long civil rights movement. This page introduces resources for exploring the Great Migration, including several sets of interactive maps and tables showing where people settled and where they came from decade by decade.
The Great Migration was a mass movement of millions of African Americans that forever changed the state of Georgia and the United States. It developed in two general phases, with an initial wave that occurred between 1910 and 1930 and a second that unfolded between 1940 and 1970.
Between 1916 and 1970, the promise of non-agricultural work, higher wages, educational opportunities, and an escape from racial violence led six million courageous Black Americans to uproot their entire lives and migrate to industrial cities in the West and North.
Background and Context. The Great Migration was primarily driven by push and pull factors. Racial violence, systematic racism, and economic hardship were push forces in the South. African Americans had to deal with prejudice, segregation, and violent threats such as lynchings and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.