AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION OF 1914-1929

African American migration of 1914-1929

African American migration of 1914-1929

Several economic and demographic shocks faced by rural South in the 1910's and continued until World War II. Termination of European immigration in 1914 and the wartime demands of employment drew black Southerners in the urban North, thus beginning the Great Migration. The condition of African Americans in southern agriculture at the turn of the twentieth century, is well known. It's disappointing history of degradation, poverty and hopelessness for men, women and children who live in despair and without alternatives. textile factories and mines did not welcome them, segregated schools provided few opportunities for upward mobility, and employment opportunities created by World War I lay in the distant and unknown future.

Between 1910 and 1930, more than 1.5 million African-Americans, mostly farmers, left the South, under the influence of boll weevil, poverty and want, and drew the industrial jobs outside the region. Between 1910 and 1920, 10.4 percent or 200,400 African Americans left Alabama and Mississippi, alone on the promise of a better life outside the South an additional 2 million have gone from the region between 1930 and 1950. Migration of black southerners to northern cities act as one element in a much more rural exodus as black and white. Cross (1984) believed that black migrants `` the answer to exactly the same natural laws that govern the white farmers (74. Daly, Jennings, Beckett, and Leashore argued that `` there are very few countries in the South where colored and white people do not move in one direction in accordance with the same situation. Black observers were quick to point out that racial oppression drove blacks from the farms of the South and in the region. Separation of race oppression to economic motives creates a false distinction.

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