Discrimination In The North (African-American)

Discrimination in the north (African American)

Introduction

One of the most dramatic demographic events that had a significant change in America would be the Great Migration. To explain this event in American history it would be best to start with the chain of events that caused it in the first place. That starting point would have to be the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. This was an announcement that was made to help free the slaves, but this was only done as a war measure because slave was at that time very essential to the South’s war effort. Abraham Lincoln, being the president at that time, pushed this through because it hurt and reduce the South’s capacity to start a war by encouraging the slave to leave the southern lines and come

a. When did the great migration start?

- One of the most demographic events of the late 19th century that bleed into twentieth century. So basically is was the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North, west, and mid west.

- Where as only about 535,000 blacks emigrated from the south between the time of 1880 through to the 1930’s and even beyond. The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s.

- The Great Migration was the movement of six million African-Americans out of the rural southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. Some historians label the period between 1910 and 1930 as the first Great Migration, in which about 1.6 million migrants left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern and Midwestern industrial cities.

b. Why was the great migration

What effect did the migration have on the northern states and cities? - e. Why did they migrate to the north?

- The northern demand for workers was a result of the loss of 5 million men who left to serve in the armed forces, as well as the restriction of foreign immigration.

1. What were the benefits that came with it?

- Some sectors of the economy were so desperate for workers at this time that they would pay for blacks to migrate north. The Pennsylvania Railroad needed workers so badly that it paid the travel expenses of 12,000 blacks. The Illinois Central Railroad, along with many steel mills, factories, and tanneries, similarly provided free railroad passes for blacks. World War I was the first time since Emancipation that black labor was in demand outside of the agricultural south, and the economic promise was enough for many blacks to overcome substantial challenges to migrate.

- In additional to migrating for job opportunities, blacks also moved north in order to escape the oppressive conditions of the south. Some of the main social factors for migration included lynching, an unfair legal system, inequality in education, and denial of suffrage.

2. What were the struggles that came with