Summary Of The Great Migration: The Evolution Of Jim Crow
The Great Migration: The Evolution of Jim Crow and the Transition of the “Other”
FINAL PAPER Introduction
The Great Migration was the movement of huge numbers of African Americans from the Southern United States north beginning in 1915, due to racial oppression and violence, describes Columbia professor Kerry Candaele here,
Optimistic and determined, African Americans began to chart a new course for themselves, demonstrating in numerous ways that they would resist oppression. Between 1910 and 1930, a deep loathing for segregation and racial violence of the South prompted more than one million African Americans to heed the radical Chicago Defender’s call to ‘leave that benighted land’ and migrate north (Candaele, 7). …show more content…
As historian Robert Chafe writes here, “In the wake of Emancipation, many freed people hoped that they would be compensated for generations of unpaid toil with free land (Chafe, 205).” However, the end of Reconstruction in 1877, and the rise of Jim Crow signaled the end of such dreams and slowly African Americans became the South’s servant class again. African Americans in the South were then denied equal rights from Emancipation onwards, and soon after in the 1890s they were denied the legal rights of American citizens as well as mistreated, degraded and lynched. By 1915 this inequality became push factors for African Americans.
Motivated by many different factors African Americans began to migrate in large numbers beginning as early as 1915. In order to understand why groups of people move one must first understand the concept of “push” and “pull” factors. A “push” factor is something that motivates someone to leave a certain area. A “pull” factor is something that entices someone to move to another
FINAL PAPER Introduction
The Great Migration was the movement of huge numbers of African Americans from the Southern United States north beginning in 1915, due to racial oppression and violence, describes Columbia professor Kerry Candaele here,
Optimistic and determined, African Americans began to chart a new course for themselves, demonstrating in numerous ways that they would resist oppression. Between 1910 and 1930, a deep loathing for segregation and racial violence of the South prompted more than one million African Americans to heed the radical Chicago Defender’s call to ‘leave that benighted land’ and migrate north (Candaele, 7). …show more content…
As historian Robert Chafe writes here, “In the wake of Emancipation, many freed people hoped that they would be compensated for generations of unpaid toil with free land (Chafe, 205).” However, the end of Reconstruction in 1877, and the rise of Jim Crow signaled the end of such dreams and slowly African Americans became the South’s servant class again. African Americans in the South were then denied equal rights from Emancipation onwards, and soon after in the 1890s they were denied the legal rights of American citizens as well as mistreated, degraded and lynched. By 1915 this inequality became push factors for African Americans.
Motivated by many different factors African Americans began to migrate in large numbers beginning as early as 1915. In order to understand why groups of people move one must first understand the concept of “push” and “pull” factors. A “push” factor is something that motivates someone to leave a certain area. A “pull” factor is something that entices someone to move to another