1.3 million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930.
Large numbers of African-American families left the South after 1865 for several reasons. The first is that, being emancipated from unjust bondage, many newly free citizens sought to break ties with the communities in which they had been enslaved. The second is that a number of Northern states and North/South border counties offered opportunities for African-Americans to settle in as-yet unpopulated areas. Above all, African-Americans were now exercising their freedom as citizens of the United States.
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".
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There was a lot of segregation in the South and many blacks were treated unfairly.
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racial violence and economic discrimination against blacks in the south
From the south to the north
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.
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When African Americans traveled from the south to the north
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The "Great Migration" increased dramatically in the years between about 1910 and the early 1920s. Between 300,000 and 1,000,000 African-Americans moved north during this period, largely in response to an increased number of unskilled factory job openings as northern manufacturers boosted production for World War I. Black migration between 1916 and the 1960s remained strong, except during the Great Depression. More than 6 million southern blacks made the move to the North during this period
The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930.[1] African Americans migrated to escape racism and prejudice in the South, as well as to seek jobs in industrial cities.
During the war, jobs were needed in factories in the South. White workers were hired on the spot, but blacks were commonly denied. Business owners in the South would even import white workers from the North and West instead of hiring skilled black workers.
Morrison gives "a great migration" of people in her novel Jazz.the black peoples migrate from South to North.
It was a flow of African Americans moving from the South to the North.