The Impact Of The Great Migration

The great migration was the relocation of more than 6 million blacks from the South to the cities of the North. It had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.it was the first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north.In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s.Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.It was hard times for African american people. Word War 1 had a part in this at the
time.