The Great Migration would start after the Civil War and African Americans began to migrate to the urban North. “People moved for many reasons. Often they were both pushed from their rural homes and pulled toward urban areas” (pg. 363). Labor shortages in the south also resulted in migration to the north, as did black newpapers encouraging southerners to move north. “One innanmed black man wrote in the Defender that sensible men would leave the poverty, injustice, and violence of the South for the cold weather of the North” (pg. 364). The North offered black people more opportunities then it did in the South and didn’t consist of dull, bleak, impoverished life and culture that the rural southerners wanted to migrated from. “Black people in the North could vote. The North also offered better public schools” (pg. 364). Where in the South, no public schools existed in the early 20th century forcing black children into the fields to work.
Going North, migration of blacks settled in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York and then migrated westward in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Black neighborhoods became known as ghettoes and it was no heaven where their destination landed because hostility from white people. “White owners resisted selling or renting property to black people outside of these neighborhoods” …show more content…
“They hoped to liberate themselves from economic dependence, and to escape the segregation and violence that exemplified life in the Jim Crow South” (pg. 396). Like the past migration of slaves, political oppression was another reason to flee North. The South made African Americans feel not welcomed, not as if it were different in the North, but, blacks didn’t have to deal with “white” and “black” signs that were expressed in the South. “Buses, streetars, and passenger trains had open seating. Black people did not have to step aside when white people passed on the sidewalks” (pg.
Going North, migration of blacks settled in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York and then migrated westward in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Black neighborhoods became known as ghettoes and it was no heaven where their destination landed because hostility from white people. “White owners resisted selling or renting property to black people outside of these neighborhoods” …show more content…
“They hoped to liberate themselves from economic dependence, and to escape the segregation and violence that exemplified life in the Jim Crow South” (pg. 396). Like the past migration of slaves, political oppression was another reason to flee North. The South made African Americans feel not welcomed, not as if it were different in the North, but, blacks didn’t have to deal with “white” and “black” signs that were expressed in the South. “Buses, streetars, and passenger trains had open seating. Black people did not have to step aside when white people passed on the sidewalks” (pg.