History links

Books I would like to read
 The adventures of huckleberry Finn: a well known adventure book
 Civil war humor: a historic comedy of the civil war
 Killer angels: the story of Gettysburg

The great migration (1910-1930)

The Great Migration

(1910-1930)

By: Sean Marbell

The great migration is a period of sadness for all southern African-Americans just because people weren't excepting of blacks in there community. Many of them moved away from friends and families to start a new life in the North with new friends and escape the harsh treatment of Southerners. Many who made the trip were unskilled laborers looking for a good education to get the tools they need to get a job. A total of 1.6 million migrants came from the south to the north in a span of 20 years.

Big cities were the main destination of this migration. the most went to cities such as New york and Chicago. Due to this migration the average of African-Americans in northern states increased about forty percent. Migrants, though they left the south, only educated migrants got jobs and the rest tried to get education but just when things got good discrimination was still there to hold them back. The immigrants discriminating against the migrants were only intimidated by this work force out to take jobs from them so they tried to not let that happen by being mean and making conditions hard on them.