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The Great Migration

The Great Migration. And Its Consequences. Essential Question:. What caused the Great Migration and What were the consequences of it?. Prior knowledge. What was the Great Migration? What is a migration? Why is the Great Migration special?

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The Great Migration

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  1. The Great Migration And Its Consequences

  2. Essential Question: What caused the Great Migration and What were the consequences of it?

  3. Prior knowledge • What was the Great Migration? • What is a migration? • Why is the Great Migration special? • What historical events do you think the Great Migration related to?

  4. The Great Migration • Mass movement of southerners to the north • From 1900 to 1970 • Both white and black migrants • White and black migrations parallel and mirrored each other but had differences • Time period of World Wars I and II, Great Depression and Civil Rights movement • Great Migration affected entertainment, religion, music, sports, job opportunity and housing

  5. White Migration • Massive migration 2 decades following Civil War • Well educated • Took professional and skilled labor jobs • Stereotype of Anti-union and for being against blacks • Prejudice-hillbillies • Not as well known-many returned • Photo from The Southern Diaspora-of workers coming to work

  6. Black Migration • Black migrants came in a massive movement in 1915 to 1965 • During the world wars • Came for push and pull reasons • Only 1/3 blacks returned to the south • Was a leaderless movement

  7. Push Factors • Cartoon from In time and place.org originally The Crisis Magazine • Post Civil War, worked in fields always in debt • No rights-couldn’t vote, Jim Crow • Threatened with violence-lynch mobs • Lowest wage of nation

  8. Pull Factors • Allowed rights • Work in factories especially after WWI • FEPC-less discrimination • Integrated military • Higher wages • Jim Crow not as obvious • Whites blame labor recruiters not themselves for driving away labor supply

  9. Discrimination Southern Blacks Southern Whites • Only live and work in select areas • Lower wages then whites • Could not eat in certain restaurants • Could only go to segregated schools • Called hillbillies • Accent made fun of • Resented for getting jobs to keep out unions • Some northern whites refused to live with southern whites

  10. Civil Rights Movement • Influx of black leaders to lead civil rights movement • Addition to population caused northern whites to notice • Civil rights tactics began in north • Tasty Cake Factory • Sit-in process • In north blacks experimented with different ways to run civil rights movement

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