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This 4 page report discusses the migration of African Americans to the northern states in the early years of the 20th century. The Great Migration was a grassroots, leaderless movement that encompasses a vast variety of individuals -- agricultural laborers, domestic servants, families – all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. In many ways, that desire crossed all societal boundaries, including race. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the end of the Civil War and into the early years of the 20th century was the mass migration from southern to northern states. During and after the Civil
War emancipated men and women moved to secure their freedom. The first trulthe 1890s when "colored" men and women Z**yzL xdleft the South to settle in northeleft the South to
settle in northern cities such as New York and Philadelphia that offered a comparatively greater level of personal freedom and rights as individuals.
According to the United States Library of Congress exhibit entitled "African-American Mosaic" (1997), when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed less than 8 percent of the African-American population lived in the
Northeast or Midwest. Even by 1900, approximately 90 percent of all African- Americans still resided in the South. However, migration from the South has long been a significant feature of
black history. An early exodus from the South occurred between 1879 and 1881, when about 60,000 African-Americans moved into Kansas and others settled in the Oklahoma Indian Territories in search
of social and economic freedom. The Great Migration was a grassroots, leaderless movement that encompasses a vast variety of individuals -- agricultural
laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for personal freedom, the appalling worsening of the quality of
life of African Americans in the South in the twenty years preceding World War I, combined with significant labor shortages in industrialized cities of the North, encouraged and supported the
migration. In the South, the rise of Jim Crow, the disfranchisement of voters, and the spread of lynchings and other mob violence against provided strong incentives for individuals and families
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