Great Migration Research Paper

213 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Impact of the Jim Crow laws

The Great Migration was a movement of millions of African Americans out of the southern part of the United States. From the south they moved all over north, east and west. It occurred between 1915 and 1970, it occurred because African Americans were trying to get far away from the south because even though they were allowed to be free people didn’t accept that and would abuse African Americans. The Jim Crow Laws were a series of laws that states had to enforce segregation in the south part of the United States. Because of the Jim Crow Laws there was nearly 4000 African Americans lynched in the south. During WWI the black population in Chicago more than doubled. Even though there was no Jim Crow Laws in Chicago there was segregation being

Show More
Related

  • The Voice of the Harlem Renaissance

    1587 Words  | 4 Pages

    The great migration was a mass exodus for African Americans from around America, to Harlem, New York. African Americans came to Harlem in large groups. Harlem had become a symbolic capital for African Americas across America. (1) ency. britt. The driving point for the "Great Migration" was the brutal conditions of south during the reconstruction period. African American's were haunted by racial bigotry and grave violence usually by the means of lynching. In addition to violence, the legal system in south was intentionally antagonistic toward African Americans. The Jim Crow laws in the south were designed to keep African Americans oppressed.

    Read More

  • Immigration Impact on U.S Social Change: A Critical Review

    1239 Words  | 3 Pages

    America is undergoing significant social change. While in 1960, white people made up 85 percent of the population, in the latest census it was projected that by 2043, the United States would “be the first post-industrial society in the world where minorities will be the majority” (Deasy, 2012). The 1965 Immigration Act is said to have opened the door to waves of new immigration from Mexico, Latin America and Asia, and the cumulative social impacts have been far reaching. The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to critically review a handful of research papers that explore some of the impacts that immigration has had on the United States, with a particular focus on the research methodologies adopted. It finds that while many papers focus on the use of quantitative research methodologies to measure

    Read More

  • Black Protest And The Great Migration Summary

    612 Words  | 2 Pages

    Eric Arnesen’s book, Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents, successfully portrays the struggles of early life for African Americans as well as why they migrated to the north in the years of World War I. During the first world war, the lives of as many as 500,000 African Americans changed dramatically as southern blacks migrated to the north. The migration escalated a shift in the population from extremely rural people to urban people in the years following the second world war. Those who lived in the south, particularly black southerners, had many reasons for why they wanted to move to the north. Due to the failure of Reconstruction, which was supposed to re-build the South after the Union victory and grant slaves

    Read More

  • The Great Migration Dbq Essay

    726 Words  | 2 Pages

    During 1910-1970 the great migration was taking place, which was the movement of southern African American’s to the north/northern cities. The great migration was an event that seemed as if it was unstoppable and that it was going to happen. In the South African American’s faced racial discrimination, sharecropping, bad working conditions, low wages, racial segregation and political detriments. This is all supported by documents 1-4. The great migration was an event which helped improve the conditions for African Americans in America.

    Read More

  • Jane Addams and Hull House

    1560 Words  | 4 Pages

    Blacks were driven out of skilled trades and were excluded from many factories. Racist’s whites used high rents and there was enormous pressure to exclude blacks from areas inhabited by whites.... ... middle of paper ... ...

    Read More

  • The Pros and Cons of the Great Migration

    1734 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Great Migration was a huge relocation of African Americans from the Southern states of the United States to northern and Midwestern cities. This occurred between the years of 1910 and 1970. Over 6 million African Americans traveled to Northern cities during the migration. Some northern city destinations were Richmond, D.C, Baltimore, New York, and Newark. Western and Midwestern destinations were those such as Los Angelos, San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit. During this time period and previous years, Jim Crow laws in the South were greatly in affect and causing African Americans a rough time due to the racism they faced. After Reconstruction had ended, white supremacy had taken it's toll in the South and Jim Crow had taken over.. The North, Midwest, and West of the United States began to face a shortage in industrial laborers due to World War I beginning and putting an end to immigration of Europeans to the United States. African Americans felt that heading north was their escape from harsh laws and unsatisfactory economic opportunities. Many people, including teenagers, from the South would write letters to the Chicago Defender asking for help to come North and find work because in the South it was hard to make a living. Some migrants already had family members in the North. For example, James Green, an elderly man who migrated at a young age from Goldsboro, North Carolina, had an aunt who lived in New York, who wanted him to be with her. He and his wife moved to New York, after his return from the air force. Because

    Read More

  • Mexican Migration Essay

    601 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope” (Martin Luther King Jr.). During 1910-1970, hope for the African Americans was migration from the rural south to the Midwest and northeast of the United States, and for the Mexicans it was making the march to El Norte. This chapter in time was acknowledged as the Great Migration. With the aftermath of World War I, there was a massive labor shortage. This created a miracle for the African Americans, as they escaped from a world of segregation, and were offered jobs within the industrial company. However, for the Mexican transition the odds were not quite in their favor.

    Read More

  • The Great Migration, Jim Crow Laws and Discrimination Against African Americans

    1166 Words  | 3 Pages

    In conclusion, the Great Migration was influenced by Jim Crow policies and the major factors that resulted from the influence of Jim Crow to cause blacks to migrate were fear and the desire to want to improve one’s life. Sadly, migrants did not receive what they expected when moving north, but some improvements were present compared to when living in the south. They escaped the torment of lynching and mob violence was not as bad. But due to the presence of Jim Crow practices and ideologies, African Americans were subjected to the same treatment they received in the south, just not as harsh as it was in the south.

    Read More

  • The Great Migration

    865 Words  | 2 Pages

    The progression of people into and within the United States has had an essential impact on the nation, both intentionally and unintentionally. Progressions such as The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration are examples of movements that impacted the United States greatly. During these movements, African Americans migrated to flee racism and prejudice in the South, as well as to inquire jobs in industrial cities. They were unable to escape racism, but they were able to infuse their culture into American society. During the twentieth century, economic and political problems led to movements such as The Great Migration and The Second Great Migration which impacted the United States significantly.

    Read More

  • The Causes And Effects Of The New Jim Crow Laws

    736 Words  | 2 Pages

    The laws known as “Jim Crow” were laws presented to basically establish racial apartheid in the United States. These laws were more than in effect for “for three centuries of a century beginning in the 1800s” according to a Jim Crow Law article on PBS. Many try to say these laws didn’t have that big of an effect on African American lives but in affected almost everything in their daily life from segregation of things: such as schools, parks, restrooms, libraries, bus seatings, and also restaurants. The government got away with this because of the legal theory “separate but equal” but none of the blacks establishments were to the same standards of the whites. Signs that read “Whites Only” and “Colored” were seen at places all arounds cities.

    Read More

  • The Causes Of The Great Migration

    1139 Words  | 3 Pages

    Warmth of Other suns was wonderful, with great stories of Americans history with spans of long migration of African Americans who take off from the south to northern and western cities. Black citizens was in hunt of a more comfortable and healthier lifestyle from the south were African Americans was being treated awful. From 1916 to 1970, the Great Migration transformed America with millions of African Americans moving locations across the United States with a huge influence on public life, economic, political and social challenges. Also a new African American culture that would be in decades of the next generation to come.

    Read More

  • The Great Compromise Dbq Essay

    743 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Great Compromise gave equal representation in the government for all states meaning that the South has gain back the power they had lost after, the Civil War. The Great Compromise was used to bridge the gap between the South and the North and to restore the South back to it’s former “glory”. Although, this compromise was suppose to benefit the country as a whole it oppressed the newly granted rights the African American population has acquired. After, the Great Compromise the African Americans were being discriminated against and attacked because of their former role in society. The white population majority of them being in the South did not accept the African Americans as equals and citizens of the same country.With the whites back in control of the government many of these Southern states started to segregate the public and private institutions claiming that they do not want to be around an inferior race.Which, lead to hate groups forming against the African Americans came around such as the Ku Klux Klan that struck terror in African Americans. The result of these actions taken against African Americans caused them to limit the use of their rights as citizens; the power to

    Read More

  • The Impact Of The Great Migration

    1694 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Great Migration was a time where more then 6 million African Americans migrated North of the United States during 1910-1920. The Northern Parts of the United States, where African Americans mainly moved to was Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland. They migrated because of the work on railroads and the labor movement in factories. They wanted a better life style and felt that by moving across the United States, they would live in better living conditions and have more job opportunities. Not only did they chose to migrate for a better lifestyle but they were also forced out of their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregation laws. They were forced to work in poor working conditions and compete for

    Read More

  • Migration And Migration

    1134 Words  | 3 Pages

    Migration is not just about arrival, but also departure and circulation’ (Raghuram and Erel, 2014, p. 150). Explain how different sorts of evidence in DD102 have been used to support this claim.

    Read More

  • Honduran Migration Paper

    1207 Words  | 3 Pages

    Contemporary migration trends in the United States of America indicate that a large number of Honduran citizens are fleeing their home nation and coming to the U.S. in hopes of a better future. The staggering number of Honduran migrants departing their nation begs the question: what is causing this massive migration? In order to understand the migration of Honduran immigrants, a comprehensive timeline outlining the complex events that have led to this phenomenon must be delineated. This report analyzes Honduras’ history through key political, economic, and social events in chronological order to fully create an outline that explains current Honduran migration.

    Read More

More about Great Migration Research Paper

Open Document