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Video Script The second great migration had African Americans travel from southern rural areas in the United States to cities all over the Unites States. The second great migration started in 1941 and ended in 1970. Not many people could travel due to World War II, but many did travel throughout the United States to escape difficult living situations. The Second Great Migration began and lasted during and after WW2. African Americans still traveled to cities but for more harsh and difficult reasons. In the Second Great Migration 5 million more African americans traveled to California compared to other major cities. Between 1940-1950, 1.5 million African Americans traveled from the South to Northern and Western cities. By 1970, 5 million African Americans traveled to cities in California. Cities such as, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San …show more content…
In the north voting was less complicated than in the South. In the south you could vote but African americans had to answer countless questions before they could vote. The north had plenty to offer, many whites who lived in the north were fine with the African Americans migrating there. But of course some did not respect African Americans, so they had their own areas in certain cities, these areas would be called the “ghetto” and it would be in the center of each cities where there were lots of African Americans. Some struggles African American ran into when living in the cities especially California, were how they adapted to the city. The African americans who traveled were considered “backwards” because people in the south did things “backwards.” The south ran things differently than the north did. The north and western cities were considered more progressive than the south so they went backwards instead of forward. Their customs were a lot different. In the south it was very segregated and Jim Crow laws created more segregation and
This obstacle caused Blacks to not have a voice in the USA’s political decisions. Furthermore, they were left with the worst jobs in town and had the poorest schools because of segregation (The Change in Attitudes.). In the southern states, compared to White schooling, the Blacks received one-third of school funding. The White people dominated the states and local government with their decisions and made sure that the Blacks were weak. They weren’t being treated in hospitals because the doctors refused to do treatment on them.
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
This can be shown by looking at four areas of society: political and judicial rights, social freedoms, education and job opportunities, and religious freedom. Generally speaking, blacks in the north were somewhat free in the area of political and judicial rights. Most of the northern states in the year 1860 allowed or restricted voting. This might seem great, but, New England was the region that had the most states where black males could vote. Out of 221,000 blacks in the north, only 25,000 African-Americans live in New England.
Their voting rights were restricted by them having to pass difficult literacy tests, pay a large poll tax, own property or were threatened with violence as according to Document #4. African Americans had been separated and had their voice in politics taken away from them by these racial and discriminatory laws. The north was a much better place for African Americans because they would have more of a voice and not have to deal with the intensity of laws such as Jim Crow or deal with poll tax. In document #4 it states “Not having a voice in government was one of the reasons Eddie McDonald migrated to Chicago, Illinois”. African Americans were going to the north to have a voice in government as well as the other benefits of the
During the 1940's, millions of African-Americans moved from the South to the North in search of industrial opportunities. As a result of this migration, a third of all black Americans lived outside the south by 1950.... ... middle of paper ... ... While the war changed the lives of every American, the most notable changes were in demographics, the labor force, economic prosperity and cultural trends.
First of all, political and judicial rights in the North allowed some africans to vote but some had restrictions. From the source of, North of Slavery, University of Chicago Press, 1961, the region that allowed more black males to vote was New England. Those states were Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Massachusetts was the only state that allowed black males to do jury duty. The Mid-Atlantic
Blacks in the north were separated from their white counterparts in everyway. Legislators were always creating laws to keep the races divided. Many states tried to impose laws that would segregate schools. The whites did not want black kids going to the same school because if blacks and whites mingled there could be inter marriage. Even the trains were segregated. Negroes had to sit on a certain part of the streetcars and whites on another. Blacks were not allowed to go to certain cities because people thought that they brought down the property value. Imagine people thought just the presence of blacks could bring down property value down.
“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.
To begin with, the conditions African Americans in the South experienced, before Reconstruction was ever conjured up, were difficult, inequitable and nearly impossible. Reconstruction began months after the thirteenth amendment was passed, so freedmen were left without the protection or guidance of the government for a short interval. Adapting to a whole new system was hard enough for African Americans...
African Americans first migrated to Chicago during the Great Migration of the 1920's. They were seeking employment, schooling, and a better quality of life compared to the poverty of the rural south. With almost all mass migrations of poor people Ghettos' were formed very soon after. The tenements previously inhabited by ethnic whites, such as the Irish, were giving way to Black Ghettos'. The housing was typical of the urban Ghetto's of the time. Ramshackle dilapidated buildings, disease, and crime.
During WWI, many African Americans were moving up to northern states in order to relocate to more industrial areas. However, this was also because of the increased
Gregory, James N.. "Second Great Migration: Historical Overview." UW Faculty Web Server. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2011. .
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
Immigration to America began when Christopher Columbus discovered the new land now called the American continent. Immigration increased in the 17th century when people came from Europe, Africa, and Asia to the new land. There were many colonies, such as the British and Dutch. When people came they go to their people and find jobs as farmers. The first immigrants were in the east coast around 1607 to 1775 after the number of immigrants increased. In 1790 - 1850 there were few immigrants who came to America, but in 1850 to 1930 the number of immigrations increased (Dolan 4).
Migration has been a trend that was started centuries ago and it still continues all around the world till this day. During the post World War II period, migration of Africans to South Africa from other regions had particularly increased. This increase of population had occurred because of many reasons, which included manufacturing increasing, forced migration, encouragement from others to migrate, the end of the apartheid, urbanization, gold and mining, and an economic boom (Reader and Lewis, Iliffe, Maharaj, and Erlmann). Most of the people that migrated either had no choice or voluntarily migrated just because they thought they would have a better opportunity in South Africa (Erlman). The African migrants would keep coming throughout the post World War II period (South Africa- The Impact of World War II).