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Railroad links to chicago
Migration from the South generally followed water and rail routes.he Illinois Central and its feeder lines had penetrated many of the plantation regions where black population was most concentrated. Other railroad lines also offered access to Chicago from these and other parts of the South.1916, black Chicagoans were likely to have roots in the upper South. Beginning in 1916, Chicago drew its African American population from the Deep South, especially Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and western -
The Great Mirgration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United states to Northeast Midwest. And west from 1910-1970. -
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The Great Migration.
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Waiting for the Train to go North
In 1918 it would have cost $22.52 for one adult to travel from New Orleans to Chicago. It was not easy to get to "the Promised Land." Because of the expense of the journey, migrants usually traveled alone. After settling north, men would often send money home to help the family left behind. -
Coal Miners
Miners from Alabama, for example, headed for the coal mines of Pennsylvania.about one-quarter of migrants came from the agriculture sector. -
Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans.The term usually refers to the political struggles and reform movements between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African Americans and other disadvantaged groups and to end legal racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. -
Store in Harlem around 1939
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how highly their supervisors sang their praises as intelligent, hardworking, productive employees-remained at the bottom of the job scale, and were the first laid off when times got bad. -
Second Great migration.
The Second Great Migration was the migration of more than five million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. It took place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970.[1] It was much larger and of a different character than the first Great Migration (1910–1940)..
