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Overcoming Obstacles Of The Great Migration From 1910-1970

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For the longest time, African Americans accepted exploitation of their wellbeing as a self-induced wound with dire repercussions. Although, slavery had been banned in many states, it did not prevent individuals from partaking in certain racial demeanors towards African Americans. In the long run, this paved the way for the Great Migration, which saw a large-scale African American departure from the farming regions of the South to the urban North between 1910 and 1970 to escape racial inequality. The Great Migration was a turning point in history that gave rise to political movements against racism, cultural resilience, and the quest for financial improvement for African Americans. This not only changed people's lives but also had a significant influence on how American society …show more content…

Which ultimately characterizes the amount of struggle and hardship African Americans are willing to endure in exchange for the “dream” of a better life. African Americans had new social settings and opportunities as a result of the Great Migration, which sparked cultural and political uprisings among them. In addition to facing discrimination and injustice, African Americans also encountered new ideas and support systems when they moved to cities in the North. This source writes, "Blacks started looking at their oppression at home as they were asked to combat Nazism in Europe. Blacks discovered that they were permitted to go through the good times but not the bad as the Great Depression subsided and wealth was restored. Black Newark residents protested their exclusion from public spaces led by individuals like Harold Lett (31)”. Many African Americans experienced prejudice and segregation at home while fighting against fascism overseas in World War

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The Great Migration was a time of change it was a time where African-Americans had the chance for a nice life. During this time people of color were moving to the northern half of the USA, in order to get a new start. During this they had to leave the only life they knew in hopes for something better in a different place. To begin with, after World War 1 began in 1914 industries lacked the laborers in their urban cities.

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Between that time, African American Families moved from the South to the North and to the West. Following the Civil War, many African Americans had packed up and migrated to urbanized areas like Chicago and New York. By 1920, almost 300,000 African Americans had moved away from the south, Harlem being a very popular destination for the traveling families. New arrivals found jobs in slaughterhouses, factories and foundries, but working conditions were strenuous to their bodies and sometimes dangerous. Many didn 't consider the amounts of people that would be migrating to New York and that made competition for living space harder.

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Between 1910 and 1930, African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North in search of better economic opportunities and as a means of escaping the racism of the South, but they were disillusioned with what they encountered. To begin, African Americans still experienced racism—segregation, profiling, and unjust law enforcement—In the North, though it was more subtle. As a result, blacks were forced into lower-paying jobs than whites. Thus, while the northern white, middle-class population grew wealthier during the post-WWI economic boom and were moving to the suburbs, blacks and other poor, working-class groups were left in the cities, the state of which grew progressively

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These African American slave workers at the time of 1865 were displaced from their current jobs and quickly became unemployed. Many of the wealthy southern landowners could not afford to pay their slaves a living wage (Williams 21). This caused an influx of African Americans to migrate to the north to seek employment and shelter (Williams 25). However, due to industrial revolution and arguably discrimination many of these African American were unable to find proper shelters and jobs to support their families. Many of such African Americans started to live on the streets and created “ghettos” which are still present today in parts of northern America like Harlem, Brooklyn, and Chicago (Williams 28).

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