Ghettos, 1910-1970

Ghettos, 1910-1970
After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives, also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance.

Most of the migrants were puritans, dissenters from the Church of England. They sought to eliminate corruption and the last vestiges of catholicism from the church. (“The Great Migration”) Corruption has prevented the catholic society from worshiping in the ways they thought “proper”. “The oversight of the crown and leaders of the church was a tough boundary to get around by staying so they left. From an economic standpoint it
“The term “ghetto” refers to an urban residential enclave occupied by socially, politically, and economically disadvantaged minority groups.” (“Ghettos”) The Ghettos were an example of an ethic minority. An ethic minority is a group that has somewhat different cultural traditions from the others. Kind of like the indians in the 1600s, they were minoritized by whites. African Americans have been minoritized for years and really could not do a thing about it. When they finally got the opportunity to attempt a change in that they left