In 1870, less than half a million of the nation’s five million African Americans lived outside the Southern part of the United States. This then changed in the following years between 1916 and 1940, nearly a million African Americans migrated from the South to the North in search of a better life. Why did so many African Americans move during this time period? The Great Migration was the movement of six million African Americans out of the postoral Southern United States to the civil Northeast, Midwest, and West. The African Americans were fed up with the Jim Crow laws. Throughout the 19th century a great mass of African Americans migrated into Texas. When the African Americans migrated from the South many of them moved the urban areas of
