Comparing The Great Migration And The Civil Rights Movement

The great migration and the civil rights movement are two important events in African-American history that changed the United States. These two events help shape America to what it is today. Both events took place when America was not a polite place for African-Americans or any minority. Both events each have their own unique impact on the United States today. Without both events occurring life as we see it now would be completely different. America evolved in many ways such as laws, culture, jobs, and the cities around the country. These two movements paved the way for similar movements, such as the gay rights movement. The great migration is the relocation of millions of African-Americans from rural cities in the south to the urban bigger

That influences those jobs to recruit African-Americans that were in need for better jobs. Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender, published advertisements explaining all of the better opportunities that the cities of the North offer for blacks. The majority of blacks found jobs in factories, meat works, shipbuilding, foundries. These jobs were very high risk and dangerous. Finding a place to live was a challenge for African-American because of the increasing population. The Great Migration produced large urban black urban black communities. Pat on where he would migrate to if he

Detroit was where everybody I knew was going. There were so many job openings there that could help me take care my family and have them in a better situation. I always wanted to work at the automobile factory because I love to work on cars. Another reason I say Detroit is because I am a big Motown Records fan and would’ve just love being in the same city that changed the music industry. New York City was also a hot spot at the time. New York City was where one of my cousins stayed and he will always tell me how much better and safer it was there. Even though it would have been nice in both cities I’m happy that I stayed here in Alabama and don’t regret it at all. In Chicago, the neighborhood Bronzeville earned the nickname “Black Metropolis”, because of the big population of blacks. Harlem in New York City was formerly an all white neighborhood which changed during the migration. Harlem is one of the birth places for new urban African-American culture. The migration introduced the artistic movement called the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a huge impact on the culture of the era. Around the 1930s the migration slowed down a little because of the Great depression. When the second world war started, it picked back