USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Migration is often broken into two phases, coinciding with the participation and effects of the United States in both World Wars. 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: -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: -To Southern blacks, Chicago was the “Promised Land.” Stories of big city life-jobs with good wages, homes with running water, and basic freedoms denied to blacks in the South-made the Northern city a prime destination for blacks coming from below the Mason-Dixon line.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was the Great Migration? The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Migration created the first large, urban black communities in the North. The North saw its black population rise about 20 percent between 1910 and 1930. Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Cleveland saw some of the biggest increases.