African Americans: The Great Migration Movement

Throughout America’s history many groups have been affected by the decisions of this nation. There are many effects that have impacted the African American’s like during these time periods. Many effects have been made by African Americans on the wars. In the North and Midwest, African Americans have faced good outcomes and harsh, brutal problems. The Great Migration has been explained as “the movement of the Black Belt from the North to the South..” The Harlem Renaissance was African American cultural movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s, they celebrated African American traditions, the African American voice, and the African American’s ways of life. By breaking down racial barriers, African American lives were changed from the worse for the better. Many African Americans had different outlooks on the Spanish-American War. Black southerners faced a host of social, economic, and political challenges to the North. The U.S. Army employed four African American regiments to serve in the Spanish-American War. Segregation, imprison, murder, and the rant of foreign policy that stressed racial cleverness were becoming more and more blatant in the American society. Prior to the war, some troops from the army unit had moved southwards, upon the demand of the War Department.
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Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first rose during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1920, about half of one million black southerners packed their bags and went to the North. The movement had a huge effect on the urban life in the United States. The Great Migration would reshape America and the nation would group as a whole instead of a