1915-1970 Research Paper

Before WWI, most black people had been dehumanized, effectively stripping them of the feeling to vote and were bereft from protection from police. “I am in the darkness of the south and I am trying my best to get out,” an inspirational migrant from Alabama wrote to the Chicago Defender. New opportunities for the urban part of the North blos-somed when the war reared its ugly head. The American industrial economy grew vigorously, and as existing European immigrants and white women were unable to meet demand, northern businesses leaned to black southerners to fill their place. When the word of higher wages and ameliorated working conditions spread around, northern businesses were met with positive feed-back as black men, in significant numbers came flocking, thus sprouting a social movement out of urban misery. The War, unknowingly, set the par for work for African Americans and the North became a liberating meadow for all those who sought equality and wanted to avoid the ‘racist menace’.

In the 1930’s black people were highly discriminated against. This was mainly because many black people started to migrate form the south to the north in order to find employment. Many

The Great Migration was a relocation of 6-7 million African Americans from the rural south to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from 1916 to 1930 which had a huge impact on Urban life in the United states. They were driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregations laws, many blacks headed North, Where they took advantages of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the first World War. Between 1910 and 1930, The African American population decreased in the South and increased in the Northern states by about forty percent as a result of the migration. This “Great Migration” was on the largest internal movement of people in the history of the United states and it is a shift that impacted culture, politics, and economics as a new African American communities struggled

Isabel Wilkerson is an African American Howard University journalism graduate writer and the first black woman in the history of American Journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize. Among her notable works is the novel “The Warmth of Other Suns”. The novel The Warmth of Other Suns was about the Great Migration which occurred between the years 1915-1970 and this was the movement of approximately seven million Black people out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and Western states from 1916 to 1970. Blacks migrated to escape widespread racism in the South, to seek employment opportunities in industrial cities of the North, to get better education for their children, and to pursue what was widely

In 1879 Thousands of African Americans migrate out of south to escape oppression. There was a better way life and opportunities in the industrialized North and in the West. African American weren’t taught to read so their job opportunities were limited. White people believed teaching blacks to read would hold blacks back. They were forced to be home makers (maids for white people) or

The 1930's was a time of change for the blacks of the United States of America. However, this change was not all for the better. The main change for blacks during this period was that many of them migrated to the North, which in turn, caused many other situations, which included

Isabel Wilkerson’s, “The Warmth of Other Suns” starts in the winter of 1916, as the world hears the news of the European war. Therefore, it was easy for American’s to overlook things such as The Chicago Defender reporting the several black families in Selma, leaving the South. The Defender was a popular African-American weekly newspaper which informed African-America’s about stories in the coming years, also having train schedules for the community to read. The Defender occurred as both cheerleader and chronicler of an exodus that would led about six million African-Americans to abandon the states of the Old Confederacy between 1915 and 1970.

1.Great Migration-relocation 6 million African Americans, going to from South to the Mid Northeast, looking for jobs and opportunities and more experience. Hard to find work due to lacking of skills. Push factors were escaping injustice and racism.

During the early twentieth century, the United States was enduring significant social and economic changes due to its transformation into a commercial and industrial world power. As the need for labor escalated within many urban areas, millions of Europeans emigrated from Southern and Eastern Europe with the hopes of capitalizing upon these employment opportunities and attaining a better life. Simultaneously, many African-Americans migrated from the rural South into major cities, bearing the same intentions as those of the European immigrants. The presence of these minority groups generated both racial and class fears within white middle and upper class Americans. The fervent ethnocentrism resulting from these fears,

By coming to New York blacks were freed of constraints and terrorism that kept them subjugated in the South. The unfortunate natural disasters that occurred in 1915 and 1916 in the south put black workers and sharecroppers out of a job, forcing them

At this time, the World War I had lowered cases of immigration to the United States something which resulted in a shortage of workers in the northern region. Employers then headed to the south to recruit more workers to work in their companies. Harlem became one of the favorite destinations in the north with more than 300,000 African Americans have moved into the neighborhood by 1920. African American migration from the south to Harlem had its implications as they carried with them their cultures which were a symbol of prosperity of this race on American soil. Renowned Blacks had a significant impact on the way of life not only for the blacks but also the entire American society.

The United States between the years 1860-1870 was in turmoil, but from a historical point of view, this decade is one of the most exciting times in U.S. history. In 1861 there were still fifteen slave states, seven states open to slavery by the Dred Scott Decision and only eighteen free states in the north (Ferrell Atlas).

In the 1950 's African Americans had to deal with the impact of racism and employment. Many of them moved from the South of the world to the North and West. From the article Great Migration we can conclude that African Americans wanted to escape Jim Crow racism in the Southern states and seek a new beginning with better living opportunities (Scott). The housing industry was the greatest cause of segregated housing in Chicago. The south of this city consisted of overpriced, overcrowded, and poorly maintained apartments and homes. Most Blacks living in the ghetto had hopes of leaving to better suburban neighborhoods, but segregated housing kept them stuck in the ghetto. Andrew declares how white people were not willing to rent or give African Americans a decent land to build homes on because they didn 't want them to become a part of their communities (Wiese). Whites would do inappropriate behaviors to let Blacks know they wanted them to leave and were not welcomed. Meanwhile Whites lived with amenities, most Blacks lived in poor conditions and paycheck to paycheck. Most African Americans had low wage jobs and were limited to employment opportunities. If they were not born with rich parents they had to work and earn half the amount of money white people earned. The majority

Effective June 15, a new system of issuing driver’s license takes effect in the state. Between June 15 and July 31, drivers with the last name initials ‘A’ through ‘K’ are required to renew their two- year license. The old system does not provide an infallible check of eligibility. The new process will enable the state of have a listing of each drier on file and be able to track violation which prevent license issuance.

In the late 1880’s to 1920’s Americans were starving, diseases were being spread, and social problems rose from the effect of modernization of cities. These effects caused many people to think about what the future would be like and hoping it would be a better world. Many authors wrote utopian novels imagining what the future holds hoping for a perfect society in which they are criticizing the inadequate society they live in. During the 19th century authors wrote about feminism, and issues that the economy has brought and provided solutions to make an ideal society. The issues that were going on in the 19th century and what authors criticized are some of the issues we face in the contemporary world, including discrimination, racism, unemployment poverty, and education.