The great migration was when african americans were free from slavery. It started in the late 1800’s and lasted until the 1970’s. It started in the south and moved on to the coasts and the north. The cause of The Great migration was the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation releasing all of the African Americans from slavery.
What is the Great migration? The Great Migration was when African americans moved from the south to urban areas such as Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. By World War II the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Most of the