The+Great+Migration

Between 1914 to 1850 millions of African Americans moved from the Southern states to the Northern states to seek a "better life," such as better employment opportunities in the urban areas and to escape the widespread racism of the South, which the Jim Crow Laws feuled. There were less than 8% of African Americans living in the Midwest and Northeastern part of United States when the Emancipation of Proclamation was signed on 1863. However from 1914-1930 the Northern cities witnessed the Black population rise about 20%. Most African Americans who participated in the migration moved to large industrial cities, such as New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; Oakland, California and Los Angeles, California, as well as to many smaller industrial cities.

The states in blue had the ten largest net gains of African-Americans during the Great Migration, while the states in red had the ten largest net losses

The main reasons why African Americans migrated was for better life. They believed that where they were going there would be no more racial segregation. They had enough of being separated from other because of the color or their skin. They were also in the search for many varieties of occupation. They heard about the southern cotton field so believe that they will get jobs there. They was also an expansion of war industries and meant more jobs for the blacks. In the southern united states, there was also a shortage of worker after the world war I and immigration act of 1924, so there was a lot of labor jobs in the factories. People also brought their family for educational reasons. Parents wanted their children’s to get a better education.
 * Reason of Migration**

Basically, the African American wanted a fresh start for their lives and their childrens lives. They felt like they could have been treated way better than usual, and the only way for that to happen is to move from the situation. They weren't exactly sure what was going to happen after the migration, but all they were hoping was that it would be a positive change. They believed that they would get treated like equal human, instead of a slave. The African Americans wanted to best lives for their children as possible, in fact not just for their children from for themselves as well.

The Great Migration was due to the effects of The Jim Crow Laws in the south the african american slaves seeked refuge in the North given the idea that there was racial persecution. Due to the color of their skin they believed that by migrating to the north they thought they would have a better life more other words then a new life a new hope. The after result was the population in the south had decrased by a tremendous amount. The Great Migration helped educated African Americans, obtain jobs, the migrants felt discrimination in the north, because the African American were often considered unwelcome by working class Northerners, who feared that their ability to negotiate rates of pay, or even to secure employment at all, was threatened by the influx of labor.