Great Migration | Definition, History, Map, & Dates | Britannica
2024年11月18日 · The Great Migration was the widespread movement of millions of African Americans, beginning in the 1910s, from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West in the United States.
Great Migration: Definition, Causes & Impact - HISTORY
2010年3月4日 · The Great Migration was the movement of more than 6 million Black Americans from the South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.
Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]
The Great Migration (1910-1970) - National Archives
2021年6月28日 · The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration | Smithsonian
By then, millions of African-Americans had already testified with their bodies to the repression they had endured in the Jim Crow South by defecting to the North and West in what came to be known...
The Great Migration (1915-1960) - Blackpast
2007年12月6日 · The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s. Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.
By 1920 more than 1.5 million blacks were working in northern factories and other urban jobs. Black newspapers aided the migration fever by advertising the advantages of living and working in northern cities, and publishing stories of recent migrants who had found success.
Primary Source Set The Great Migration - Library of Congress
Millions of African Americans moved from rural to urban centers and from southeastern states to the north and west. This exodus, which came to be called “the Great Migration,” transformed American life in the 20th century and beyond. Many factors fueled the Great Migration.
Moving North, Heading West | African - Library of Congress
In the 1920s, more than 750,000 African Americans left the South--a greater movement of people than had occurred in the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. The large-scale relocation to the Northeast and West brought many other changes with it, as many largely rural people moved into cities for the first time.
The Great Migration (African American) - America's Great …
Over the course of the 20th century, more than seven million African Americans left homes in the South to resettle in northern and western states. Historians have long described this exodus as the Great Migration. These interactive maps and data tables provide detailed information about the movement of African Americans out of the South.
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