Bantu migration was one of the reasons for Africa's diverse cultures and languages. As the Bantus migrated from Southern Africa northwards, they assimilated different people, and developed different languages, cultures, and dialects.
By about A.D. 1000 one Bantu group, the Shona, had built an empire. It included much of what is now Zimbabwe and Mozambique. They farmed, raised cattle, and traded gond many Arab customs by the A.D. 1100s. The Swahili-speakers were sailors and traders. Archaeologists have found Chinese porcelain at Great Zimbabwe. y an Indian ocean trade network.
African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
high paying factory jobs
availability of new factory jobs
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved north to large cities due to increased oppression in the South, greater accessibility to education, and an increase in job opportunities following WWI. The most popular destination was New York's City's upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where the increase in the population of African Americans led to the Harlem Renaissance.
Slow, and gayly with no food, so the African Americans were abandoned.
The migration of African Americans to the North during and following World War I was mainly a result of the availability of new factory jobs
During the "Great Migration" millions of African Americans moved from the south to northern cities, one of which was New York, where they settled in Harlem. They transformed the entire culture and environment of Harlem, and the people of the Harlem Renaissance were the African Americans who moved to New York during the "Great Migration".
African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
It was a flow of African Americans moving from the South to the North.
the political power of the sunbelt increased
In the Great Migration, which took place in 1910-1930, millions of African Americans "migrated" to the Midwest, Northeast, and West of the United States from Southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. A second movement -- New Great Migration -- has been occurring since 1965 and is essentially the reverse of the Great Migration, with African Americans moving to the "New South" where job growth exceeded that of the North and racism/discrimination has abated.
high paying factory jobs
availability of new factory jobs
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved north to large cities due to increased oppression in the South, greater accessibility to education, and an increase in job opportunities following WWI. The most popular destination was New York's City's upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where the increase in the population of African Americans led to the Harlem Renaissance.
The large scale migration of African-Americans from the agricultural south to the industrial north during the twentieth century came to be known as the Great Migration. More than 6 million blacks moved out of the rural south to the Northeast, Midwest and West to compete for manufacturing and other jobs in northern cities. By the end of the Great migration in the 1960's, African-Americans had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent lived in cities. It was one of the largest and most rapid migrations in history.
When African Americans moved from south to north the great migration.
Slow, and gayly with no food, so the African Americans were abandoned.