USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The First Great Migration (1910-1940) had Black southerners relocate to northern and midwestern cities including: New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Pittsburgh.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Pull” factors included encouraging reports of good wages and living conditions that spread by word of mouth and that appeared in African American newspapers.

Detailed explanation-3: -When the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the time it was over, in the 1970s, 47 percent of all African-Americans were living in the North and West. A rural people had become urban, and a Southern people had spread themselves all over the nation.