The Great Migration

What was it?

• The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970

What caused it?

black codes

second class citizens

KKK

migration begins

tensions grew in the north

Segregated cities

harlem renaissance

• New culture brought to all-black neighborhoods within cities.
• New music, dance, art flourished.

World war II

statistics

• 6 million migrants moved north over a 50 year period.
• South went from having 90% of African-Americans, to less than 50%.
• Black farmers went from 75% to 25% nationwide.