GREAT MIGRATION

QUESTION

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

BRITANNICA SCHOOL FACTS

• Between 1910 and 1920 economic depression in the south worsened.
• After the civil war ongoing racial oppression was at large.

STUDY SC

• Gave certain African Americans families free time in the lives.
• White landowners were able to use legal mechanisms of sharecropping to assure control over African Americans.

HISTORY REFERENCE CENTER

• At the beginning of the 20th century the majority of African Americans lived in the South.
• At the beginning of the great migration the north didn't like the change.

BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT

• By 1960 more than 50 percent of African Americans lived in the South.
• African Americans did not begin leaving the south in large numbers until the second decade of the twentieth century, when ww1 (1914-18) provided a critical new "pull" factor that greatly accelerated the migration of African Americans to northern cities.

SOURES

• http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/603604 HODGE, CHELSEA. "Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations And The Making Of An Interracial Left." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 73.4 (2014): 457-459. History Reference Center. Web. 30 Mar. 2016.

SOURCES

• "Great Migration, 1910–70." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. 530-533. Biography in Context. Web. 30 Mar. 2016. URL
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LINK

• http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow...

SOURCE

• Charles Hardy III Drug Him Through the Street”: Hughsey Childes Describes Turn-of-the-Century Sharecropping (Philadelphia, Penn.: Atwater Kent Museum, 1984), West Chester University.http://studysc.org/middle-school/history-after-1865-wwi-and-jazz-age/world-...