Transcript African American Migration

Objective:
List the push/pull factors that lead to the Great
Migration
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Migration
◦ a movement or change of position
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Mechanized
◦ to operate or perform by or as if by machinery.
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Laborer
◦ a person engaged in work that requires bodily
strength rather than skill or training
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Separate
◦ to set apart; disconnect
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Accommodate
◦ to do a kindness or a favor to
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Subscriber
◦ a person, company, that subscribes, as to a
publication
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Encouraged
◦ to promote, advance, or foster
Objective:
List the push/pull factors that lead to the Great
Migration
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Boll Weevil
Sharecropping
Mechanized
Farming
Jim Crow
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Female lays egg in
cotton bolls
Babies feed on
Cotton
10 generations
could destroy one
cotton crop
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Given land, seed,
materials
Give land owner
half of crop
Never could get out
of debt
Usually left farm at
night
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Introduction of
tractor cut down
need for laborers
Pay became
lower because of
extra workers
North industries
paid 3 to 4 times
as much
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Separate the South
by Race
Schools, church,
hotels, benches,
drinking fountains,
railroad cars, public
places
Looked for equality
in the North
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Newspapers
Family and Friends
World Wars
Transportation
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Opened new jobs in
the city to
accommodate
growth
White males sent to
war
Wages at least 2x
more than the
south
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Subscribers outside the
city spread the interest
in the city
The New Negro
◦ Literary works of African
Americans in Harlem
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Chicago Defender
◦ Encouraged blacks to
move North
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People moved to
major cities to be
near family
Letters encouraged
the move
Helped new families
get jobs, schools
and city life
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New highway
system allowed cars
to travel easier
Trains became a
major form of
transportation since
being used for
trade
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Census of 1910.
◦ U.S. population:
93,402,151
◦ Black population:
9,827,763 (10.7%)
Census of 1920.
U.S. population:
105,710,620
Black population:
10,463,131 (9.9%)
Migration by Train
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Upper West side
◦ 20 blocks long and 4 blocks wide
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Over crowded, high unemployment, poverty
Literary movement celebrating African
American culture
An African American cultural (music, writing,
and art) movement of the 1920s and early
1930s
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There was a strong
sense of racial pride and
a desire for social and
political equality among
the participants.