THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Many African Americans arriving in the North found prejudice in trying to rent apartments from whites. Since arrivals wanted to live close, large black neighborhoods grew in northern cities.
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Many African Americans found northern blacks very welcoming and began to work together in a “Back to Africa” movement.
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Many African Americans took factory jobs in cities like Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia. New arrivals found only low-paying jobs available.
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Many northern white workers felt threatened by the arrival of so many African Americans that racial tensions grew and race riots broke out in several cities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Migrants and their children created the Harlem Renaissance, changed the sound of the blues music that they brought north with them, desegregated sports, and became involved in politics. The Great Migration arguably was a factor leading to the American civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Migration also began a new era of increasing political activism among Black Americans, who after being disenfranchised in the South found a new place for themselves in public life in the cities of the North and West. The civil rights movement directly benefited from this activism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary factors for migration among southern African Americans were segregation, indentured servitude, convict leasing, an increase in the spread of racist ideology, widespread lynching (nearly 3, 500 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968), and lack of social and economic opportunities in the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agents from various industrial sectors arrived in the South, enticing African American men and women to migrate north by paying their travel expenses. The demand for workers, incentives from industry agents, better educational and housing options, as well as higher pay, brought many African Americans from the South.