THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Northern factories had a shortage of workers
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African American sharecroppers had difficulty surviving economically
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Jim Crow laws against African Americans
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WWI cut off the flow of European immigrants
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Arguably the most profound effect of World War I on African Americans was the acceleration of the multi-decade mass movement of black, southern rural farm laborers northward and westward to cities in search of higher wages in industrial jobs and better social and political opportunities.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.