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Q1: The Great Migration was the movement of Black men to the North, as the South had much more segregation
Q2: 5 million
Q3: Yes because they found an opportunity to go away the oppressive conditions the were into the south.
Q4: Seattle, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Chicago

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Name at least 5 of the major cities that saw the arrival of African - American migrants from the South.

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Do you think African-Americans had a better life in the North?  Give reasons for your answer.

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What was the total number of people that moved North?

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In your own words, provide a definition of the Great Migration.

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Much hatred and prejudice still thrived in the South. Lynching and angry white mobs were still prevalent. Black southerners couldn’t wait to get out from under the southern white man’s authority.

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This poem by Langston Hughes describes the overall feeling of the Great Migration, emphasizing the struggles of living in the South. The end of the poem (not shown) reads: “Who lynch and run, who are scared of me and me of them. I pick up my life and take it away on a one-way ticket- Gone up North, Gone out West, Gone!”

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When World War I created a huge demand for workers in northern factories, many southern blacks took this opportunity to leave the oppressive conditions in the south.

The northern demand for workers was a result of the loss of 5 million men who left to serve in the armed forces. 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 labour 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.

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How many people moved in the Great Migration?

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How many people moved in the Great Migration?

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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.  Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.

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The Great Migration was the mass movement of southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960.

During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York.