The Great Migration In The 1950's

The great migration was when 6 million African Americans moved from the south to cities of the north. The Midwest and west in the 1950s had a impact on the urban life because so many African Americans were gone. Chicago, New York and other big cities saw their population grow widely. The migrants had to deal with horrible working conditions and competition for new home, due to the fact that they were African American and because they were new-comers. The first biggest movement happened during World War 1, when 454,000 African American southerners move north. Between 1940 and 1960 more than 349,000 African Americans left the south and went to the north and west cities. The reason for the migration was a combination of both the desire to escape bad economic conditions in their area, and the advantage of greater

Whenever there was a racial conflict, whites named it the rise of the ghetto, or a problem in the inner cities, and lastly, an urban disorder. Urban black communities in different areas, became the center of cultural and political activities. The civil rights movement in the 1950s, all came from these new urban societies that came along in the north. It was came about in the north because they were practicing this movement while they were in the north. When African Americans relocated, it was considered an dominant and lasting movement. They changed the politics point of view, and went to a much better place than in the rural south. This migration was very hard and sad, most African Americans were from the rural south, but then they converted to the north and west in huge amounts. The suburbs transformed into a more African American migrated area. The 1950s was a perfect time for the African Americans to go to the north, during those years racism was literally practiced in the south, and in some cases people were killed because of