The Great migration of African Americans

The Great migration of African Americans

Throughout the early 1900s, the South became known for African Americans like Margaret walker as a "sorrow home". More than two thirds of African Americans were sharecropping farmers who paid the landowners a part of their crops in exchange for rent of their land. Some factories were simply closed to them and they were often the last ones to be hired and the first ones to be fired. African American women had to work as household help for whites at wages that kept them rapped in poverty. Some fell deeper ...