William H. Taft: The Rise Of The Great Migration

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The Great Migration started in 1910 and ended in 1970. Many African-American left the south for better economic opportunities and a new life in the north. During this transition, new laws and politicians emerged. Some of these new laws were meant to suppress African-American and others helped African-American find new independence. William H. Taft became president in 1909 and finished his term in 1913. Additionally,Taft was one of the first influence that cause African-American to move early on in the Great Migration. Although Taft was for immigration and also veto a congressional law imposing a literacy test against minorities. During Taft’s presidency, he’d tried to keep Roosevelt(the previous president) promise of leaving white citizen of the south alone and to allow them to continue their racial practice. As a result, Taft never tried to enforce 13th,14th, and 15th amendments during his term. As a result, allowed whites to continue practicing Jim Crow laws. Furthermore, when Woodrow Wilson joined in office in 1913, he was a strong advocator of world peace. Later during his presidency World War I began. Wilson tried avoiding the war, but his effort were rendered hopeless after Germany attacked American merchant ships. On …show more content…

Born in Lafayette, Alabama, Mitchell move to Chicago to pursue a real-estate business while practicing law. Mitchell grew up on a farm and used to work for Booker T. Washington in 1897. He became the first African-American Democrat elected to the House of Representatives in 1934. “After Mitchell had been forced out of a Pullman car in Arkansas, he sued for the right of African-Americans to receive the same accommodations as whites in interstate transportation, and argued his case before the US Supreme Court.. He continued to fight for the rights of African-Americans, and in 1942 proposed to outlaw all poll taxes on the grounds that if blacks could fight for the USA they were entitled to

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