THE GREAT MIGRATION

What was the Great Migration in the American experience? How did it affect African Americans in South Carolina.

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• In an ironic twist, the white community in the South, whose poor treatment of blacks was driving force behind the Great Migration, grew their disturbed as they watched badly needed black laborers leaving in droves.

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• A lot of African Americans moved to the northern cities to seek employment.Although the Great Migration slowed during the Great Depression, it surged again after world war ll, When rates of migration were high for several decades.

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• Africans Americans moved to the North to get more freedom because of the Jim Crow Laws.

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• African Americans lived in the southern states. From 1916 to 1970, during the Great Migration, about six million black southern relocated to other parts of the country.

CITATION

• Lutz, Norma Jean. "Chapter 3: The Great Migration." History of the Black Church. 36. US: Facts on File, 1998. History Reference Center. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.
• Great Migration." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2016. Web. 29 Mar. 2016
• Mathieu, Sarah-Jane The African American Great Migration Reconsidered OAH Magazine of History, Oct2009, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p19

Citations
4. Adams, Luther. "Headed For Louisville:" Rethinking Rural To Urban Migration In The South, 1930-1950." Journal Of Social History40.2 (2006): 407-430. History Reference Center. Web. 30 Mar. 2016.