The Great Migration

What is the great migration?

It is a big move for the African Americans by moving from the Southern States to the Northern States.

Why? For better wages Better conditions Better living More work Most of all to get away for the south

Maps of the great migrations

Southern States

Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana North Carolina Tennessee and Oklahoma

Northern Cities

New York Detroit Chicago Los Angles- west citiesSmaller cities Syracuse Oakland Milwaukee Newark Gary

The Big Move During the first decades of the 20th century,

about 194,000 blacks has left the borders in the South and settled in the primarily northeastern cities such as Harlem, New York and North Philadelphia.

During the decade of the First World War 555,000 people left. One of the people is Ida Mae Gladney.

Since the blacks left “As the North grows blacker, the South grows whiter.”

Ida Mae life in the great migration

It was decades after when Ida Mae she would remember that the blacks got the cotton clean out when they left to go north. Also when they made out of the south a black man named Eddie Earvin would remember how he got out of war zones.

As Ida mae traced the central spine of the continent, paralleling the father of waters from Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas to industrial cities Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh