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The Great Migration was the movement of 1.4 million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930.
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The Great Migration (Puritan) from England to what is now the Northeastern United States, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Caribbean during the 1630s.
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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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The Great Migration, a long-term movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. Chicago attracted slightly more than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South during these decades.
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Read About. The Great Migration. Overview · Leaving the South · Migration Fever · The Journey North · Networks and Media · A New Industrial Landscape...
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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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The racial composition of the nation's cities underwent a decisive change during and after World War I. In 1910, three out of every four black Americans lived on farms, and nine out of ten lived in the South. World War I changed that profile. The Great Migration; Period: 1920s...
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Encyclopedia: The Great Migration (album)
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Beginning in the 1890s and lasting well into the 1970s, a "Great Migration" of southern blacks to the West and North changed the demographic structure of the nation. Blacks turned to the "Promised Land" of the North in search of jobs and greater racial toleration.
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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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