THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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They migrated to join the army.
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They wanted to live in crowded city apartments instead of small country homes.
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There was a great flood in the New Orleans and Jackson.
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There was a shortage of factory workers.
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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: -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-3: -They sought more opportunity and a chance to leave behind the oppression of the Jim Crow South. From 1910 to 1930, the Black population of Detroit increased from under 6, 000 to over 120, 000, as the city developed as the fourth largest in the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Migration, a long-term movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. Chicago attracted slightly more than 500, 000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South during these decades.
Detailed explanation-5: -The rapid mobilization of resources and weapons during World War II prompted many African Americans to migrate to Northern and Western cities in search of jobs in the booming munitions industry.