My Journal Entry

At the time of World War I, Many whites were recruited in the military and sent to Europe. The result was a demand for workers in all types of jobs. Many African-Americans facing a plight in the south because of drought, loss of jobs, and racial discrimination immigrated to northern cities like New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. Between 1910 and 1930, over hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved. In northern

Many left to the North because it was a place “…where there are no lynchings” (Sandburg 15), a place where they could be safe. The black population in Chicago lived in an area known as the “black belt.” The Negro Migration caused the population in the Chicago “black belt” to more than double from 50,000 to 125,000 making Chicago have the third or fourth largest black population next to New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington (7).

like their jobs in the South. And those who found a job were lucky to have a job at all, because many blacks could find no job, leaving them to live with other job-less blacks in unsanitary and run-down housing. This type of housing grew, creating black slums, or ghettos,

The South was a complete mess after the Civil War. The early part of the 20th century brought many changes for African Americans. There was a difficult challenge of helping newly free African American slaves assimilate among their white counterparts. They suffered from crop failures, economic hardships, and the early failures of Reconstruction in the south. So as result many Southern African Americans migrated to northern cities in search of employment and a chance at a better life. However, Southern African Americans migrating to northern cities quickly discovered that they were not able to enjoy the same social and economic mobility experienced by their European immigrant counterparts arriving around the same time. There were many

From the early 1900s – 1920s the Great Black Migration occurred. In addition, the Great Migration occurred in the early 1900s and ended shortly after the Great War. The Great Black Migration was a time where blacks left the south to seek a better lifestyle in the Midwestern, Northern, and Eastern states. Blacks fled the South to seek better jobs, escape racism and discrimination, and to look for better schooling for their children. The Great Black Migration mostly occurred in the states of Illinois, Missouri, New York, and California. During the Great Migration, more than 100,000 blacks migrated to Harlem, New York. In Chicago and New York City, blacks were empowered by black-owned businesses, newspapers, and communities. Newspaper

Free blacks took to the road to test out their freedom or look for loved ones i. Emancipation STRENGHTENED black families; slave marriages were legalized so as children could be legal heirs d. Others took to the city, where black communities sprung up i. “Exodusters,” i.e. the 25,000 blacks migrating from LA, TX, and MI to Kansas from 1878 to 1880 were prevented migration on the Mississippi River at one point. B. Free black life 1. The CHURCH became the focus of black community life a. They now had the opportunity to form their own churches with their own ministers i. black Baptist Church (150,000 members in 1850) reached 500,000 in 1870.

Most of the time, the Blacks had to pay a large amount of money for taxes and did not receive much in return. However, black children were allowed to go to school and receive an education. Many of them dropped out after only two or three years however so they could help their families tend the farms. For those who did continue till they were old enough for collage, they did not attend because, one, tuition was immensely expensive and because two, not many collages would accept Black scholars.

One day you'll sit down and wonder how did we get here, when did this happen, and why did this happen the way it did, and you will not be able to figure it out, because you decided not to vote, not to let your voice be heard. It is critical that we as African Americans become a well-informed group of individuals, and understand what we should vote for or what we should stand up for. Specifically being an African American it is important to vote because it is not only our right but our duty, for our predecessors fought for years for this right as did many others. Because we were not seen as equal, we were not given the same rights as our Caucasian counterpart. We live in a world where are given the right to vote and we have come a long way so, let our voices be heard. Our government, this democracy we live in does not dictate what we should and should not be allowed to believe.

They tried to break out of their ghetto surroundings and find housing in better, all-white urban neighborhoods. However, this was nearly impossible. Most banks and mortgage companies would only issue loans to blacks to purchase homes in all-black neighborhoods. Just like now, but now not only can blacks not find financial assistance in what they consider low income properties (black neighborhoods), due to the favts that whites are moving into these ghettos and they are forcing blacks out, to even a lower standardized means of living; some people are way below the poverty line because of the

They were treated differently. Many could not get a good job and if they did they were payed less. Any african americans moved to the city to get a job but never could. This not only was bad for the economy but it was bad for the city. The city was filled with the homeless. The word ghetto originated from this time because of the dirty streets filled with the homeless. There were many protest so president Lyndon B. Johnson passed the policy known as the war on poverty. The government started more job training and hired more black people on purpose to ease racial tension. From there on African Americans found many jobs with a decent wage to hold their own. Many of these changes were thanks to the many who stood day and night to protest for their rights as an American

The Great Migration from the South bought most of the blacks from the south to the black neighborhoods within the North and Midwest. Harlem became

"Your name is Andrew. You are 13 years old. You are an orphan. And your life sucks."

As Christians, we are to live in such a way that would lead others to Christ. Mother Goodman’s life has been most inspiring, especially to one of her long-time friends. He was willing to forsake a worldly lifestyle and accept Jesus as Savior because of her godly influence and high standards. He later became a member of New Hope and enjoyed reading his

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s essay, My Two Live, I got that the author, as an Indian-American, tried to define herself throughout her whole life. The changing of her feeling for her identity and the death of her parents and her bicultural experience changed her feeling for her identity from humiliating to confusing to accepting to cherishing. Lahiri wanted convey us that the bicultural things can be seen as a shifting equation and she used “one plus one” for instances. Basically, I agree with her notion. However, in my opinion, the result of the equation is not just zero or two. It should be equal three or even bigger, when you really understand your great nation, United State of America.

As Christians, we have a lot of responsibilities, ranging from: sharing the gospel, being good influences, helping the orphans and widows, and, some may say, voting. Today, people may feel as if one should vote, as a duty to provide the leadership that would most uphold biblical precepts. Some say that Christians should choose the better of the two candidates; others say believers should not choose between the lesser of the two evils. Nevertheless, Christians undoubtedly have a strong role in voting! However, what is the role in its entirety?