The Great Migration was the movement of six million African Americans seeking elsewhere due to the segregationist policies known as the Jim Crow Laws. Southern Blacks were forced to making a living using the sharecropping system, which offered little social and economic opportunity. As well as having poor social and economic opportunity, they were faced with the intimidation and violence that was produced by the Ku Klux Klan. In the North, there were also labor shortages due to World War I, resulting in thousands of job opportunities for African Americans. In having relocated to the North, many white people held animosity toward African Americans because competition for employment was at a higher stake and living space because increasingly
