THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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The hope for a better job.
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The desire to escape Jim Crow Laws.
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The cotton crop failed and many lost their jobs.
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They wanted to move to a place with a better climate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The driving force behind the mass movement was to escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow. The Great Migration is often broken into two phases, coinciding with the participation and effects of the United States in both World Wars.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was caused primarily by the poor economic conditions for African American people, as well as the prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -“Pull” factors included encouraging reports of good wages and living conditions that spread by word of mouth and that appeared in African American newspapers.