The Evolution Of The Great Migration

Spencer R. Crew wanted the readers to understand why the Great Migration happened. Also what the migrants faced in terms of discrimination in south and in the north. He states that “Without the increase in job opportunities caused by World War 1, the Great migration might never have occurred”. Better job opportunities was a big part of why so many migrated to the north along with the freedom that Jim Crow had denied them their whole lives. Though many found jobs in the north they were typically unskilled and least desirable jobs, like in the meat packing companies, on railroads, servants, and janitors. Those jobs paid more than they could get in the south but was offset by the higher cost of living in the north they had to pay higher prices

Between 1700 CE and 1900 CE, the world saw radical growth and change. New inventions, technologies and innovations led to major shifts in power and new societies emerged. A common theme between these two dates is the migration of peoples for a variety of reasons. Some left their homelands due to push factors, like famine, war and disease. Some left due to pull factors, like economic prosperity, religious tolerance and freedom. From 1700 CE to 1900 CE, global migration experienced a continuity in long distance migration to the Americas as a result of a need for labor. Although there is a continuity, there are major changes in the push and pull factors for migration such as like the Irish Potato Famine and the migration of immigrants into Australia due to the promise of economic prosperity.

When war erupted in Europe in August 1914, most Americans, African Americans included, saw no reason for the United States to become involved. This sentiment strengthened as war between the German-led Central Powers and the Allied nations of France, Great Britain, and Russia ground to a stalemate and the death toll increased dramatically. The black press sided with France, because of its purported commitment to racial equality, and chronicled the exploits of colonial African soldiers serving in the French army. Nevertheless, African Americans viewed the bloodshed and destruction occurring overseas as far removed from the immediacies of their everyday lives.

The Great Migration, is known as the largest in U.S. history, African Americans, left the rural south for cities and came with their hopes and their dreams of a new and different life, seeking relief from labor exploitation and white violence. The migration sparked the Harlem Renaissance which coincided with the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation, leaving an impact that was keenly felt not only on a collective level but also on an individual level within the African-American communities. This impact affected America's robust cultural industries, music, film, theater all of which fully benefited from the creativities contributions of African Americans. The Harlem Renaissance continues to be the period we attribute to the

In 1843, farmers from Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, who were not satisfied by the future their homes could offer them, decided to leave on a 2000-mile journey to Oregon in hope of finding better lives . In 1845, a few years after "The Great Migration of 1843", fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek, mislead a group of emigrants following the Oregon trail from Missouri to the Willamette Valley, to a shortcut that put many of their lives at stake. Based on this true story, Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010) uses its mise-en-scène, cinematography and other formal properties to generate meaning about themes represented in this event such as trust, survival, and women’s role in a patriarchal society. The demonstration of this type of society is shown in the film by the use of the women’s point of view, which will be analysed using a simple chosen excerpt. In the selected scene, the women’s muteness and passiveness can be clearly identified by multiple elements of formal features such as the point of view shot and edit of sound.

The “great migration” is a historical movement of approximately 1.3 million African Americans from the Southern to the Northern United States from 1910 to 1930, settling primarily in large industrialized cities such as New York, Cleveland and Chicago. A second wave of northward migration occurred from 1940 to 1970 and involved approximately 5 million African Americans. This historical movement provides an opportunity to explore differences in cognitive test performance in old age among the African-American community related to early life environment.

A black women by the name of Isabel Wilkerson, once stated some very influential words of wisdom to express her feelings toward the Great Migration. She stated,

Jazz emerged as a particular form of black folk music from the rural South. Black migration out of the South resulted in an increase in urbanization, innovation in

With the large scale exodus of African Americans from the south during the period (1916-1920), this report by U.S Department of Labor, Division of Negro Economics works to find the potential cause of this large scale exodus. Upon discussing this topic with an “educated, professional” black, they believe that a prominent reason good be the high wages in the north. Further research regarding the topic, bring them to the conclusion that search of adventure, high wages and better social standing are the prominent reasons for this exodus. I intend to use this excerpt to illustrate the distinguished reasons for great migrations, which was an influential reason for the large number of black population in Harlem, New York.

‘Jazz is music of urban civilisation and complexity, not a music of cultural isolation or of racial singularity. To understand its roots requires scholarly inquiry into the peculiar urban mix of late nineteenth century New Orleans, for it was that unique mix that gave rise to the music’

In the 1500s, England decided to create their own church called the Church of England. Everyone was forced to belong to this church, causing them to have no religious freedom. Many people were against this decision, making them decide to leave England, and go to New England. This is what sparked The Great Migration. Taking place between 1620 and 1640, over twenty thousand Puritan immigrants decided to leave their homes in England and aboard onto ships to settle in New England. They did this to not only be able to practice religion freely, but to also explore and make more money of their own.

Blacks had a huge influence on the development of genres such as “Hip Hop”, and “Rock and Roll”, which today are not just listened in America but worldwide. Jazz and popular dances were an irresistible expression of black pride (Moore, 55). White musicians tried to imitate black musicians but could not capture their ambiguous spirit. However, although Jazz was the most popular genre during the decade, many Americans did not approve it, partly because of its origins. Many white Americans were appalled to see their children dancing to music that was believed to have emerged from “the Negro brothels of the south.”

When the Great Migration began to sweep across America, Mississippi was one of the states that suffered the most losses of black citizens. The economy, while no longer being based off of slavery, still ran on the cheap labor of black people and the financial benefits that came with treating a large portion of the population as second-class citizens. For this reason, the government of Mississippi struggled to prevent African Americans from leaving the state, both by brute force and by law.

Non-historical evidence is necessary in understanding human evolution since the earliest stages of our history occurred before writing existed. While later civilizations could record their own history, the account of early Homo sapiens is incomplete without information from before written language. Subsequently, there are no explicit records detailing how humans expanded from one continent to all seven, causing historians to need alternate sources of information in order to expand upon theories of evolution; the non-recorded remains of these civilizations provide answers to many of the gaps left in humans’ evolutionary narrative.

Celts began to move across the continent and arrived in France in the 7th century BC. Paresis settled was called by a group of Celtic Gaul's in the third century here. Gaul and centuries of dispute between Rome, in the latter shooting control of the territory, ended in 52 BC. The Seine settlement counted some 10,000 inhabitants by the third century AD flourished as a Roman town Letitia (in French, at Lutes, from the Latin for "mid water dwelling"). The Great Migrations, beginning around the middle of the Third century AD with raids by the Franks and then by the Alemanii from the east, left the settlement on the south bank scorched and pillaged, and the residents then have fled to Ile de la Cite, has been enhanced by a wall of stone .