The Great Migration was the major migration of African American workers from Southern US to Northern, Western, and Midwest US. With the mass exodus of soldiers leaving the US during WWI, many jobs were available for African Americans. African Americans seized the opportunity and migrated, resulting in the combination of Whites and African American all over the US. African Americans challenged economic, social, and political problems in their new found cities. Some of the major cities that many African American migrated towards were New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and especially Detroit. Detroit and Philadelphia saw increases of 611% and 500% respectively.
By moving to the North, the North was able to recognize the injustices happening in the South and fix them. The Great Migration really exposed the racial segregation going on during this time period. From sport to art many African American shaped the history and culture of our country. Without people like Michael Jackson and Barack Obama, our culture and history would not be like what it is today. Also, events like the Harlem Renaissance really shaped US culture and African American history forever.
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It's interesting that they all moved North, and I like your connection to modern-day culture. But were there not people from the South going to war, so why did they not take the jobs in the South? Were there not African-Americans fighting in the war, so why were they able to migrate North if they should've been fighting? Unless they weren't allowed to fight...
The graph was a very helpful visual in order to see the decline in African Americans in the south. Good work
Your use of quantitive data was really helpful in understanding how rapid and large the Great Migration was.
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