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Through a series of paintings, in The Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans who moved to the North in search for a better life. Lawrence's parents were among those who migrated between 1916-1919, considered the first wave of the migration.
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Their policies produced two events of major significance--the Great Migration of the 1630's and the Puritan Revolution of 1640's. The first led to creation of a new England on the shores of America. The second event led to a new England in the Old World.
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www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/two.html
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African-Americans who traveled North during the Great Migration assumed that leaving the South meant leaving behind racial violence as well, but this was not the case.
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ci.coe.uni.edu/facstaff/zeitz/museum/migrate.html
ci.coe.uni.edu/facstaff/zeitz/museum/migrate.html
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The African American Great Migration ... The North by South webpage explores multiple dimensions of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to Northern cities. Epic in scale, monumental in its long-term social and cultural impact, the Great Migration stands as the largest internal movement of people...
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Forced migration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Forced migration (also called deracination ) refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region. It often connotes violent coercion, and is used interchangeab...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration
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Migrants‘ letters to northern newspapers were among the best and most voluminous sources for understanding the migration process and interpreting the migrants’ motivations for leaving. ... See Also:"Times Is Gettin Harder": Blues of the Great Migration...
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The reasons for this "Great Migration," as it came to be called, are complex. Thousands of African-Americans left the South to escape sharecropping, worsening economic conditions, and the lynch mob. They sought higher wages, better homes, and political rights.
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www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html
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The aim of the Great Migration Study Project is to compile comprehensive genealogical and biographical accounts of every person who settled in New England between 1620 and 1640. Between these years about twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to settle New England.
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www.greatmigration.org/
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