LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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A period of time when African Americans moved North in large numbers.
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When African Americans settled Liberia.
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When slaves traveled the Underground Railroad.
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When African Americans migrated to the South from the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many Black Americans headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that arose during the First World War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Second Great Migration (1940-1970) is considered by some historians as, essentially, the sequel to its predecessor, the Great Migration (1910-1930).
Detailed explanation-4: -In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. It began in 1940, through World War II, and lasted until 1970.
Detailed explanation-5: -About 4.3 million African Americans migrated out of the southern United States between 1940 and 1970, an exodus known as the Second Great Migration. The first Great Migration occurred when African Americans moved north in the first decades of the 1900s.