Strategies for African Americans

Abstract

This paper will discuss the Reconstruction era was to be a time when the south would be rebuilt after the devastating destruction from the Civil War. All citizens were to be embraced and fully protected by the government, but few faced some challenges to stay in south and survived various dispute.

Strategies for African Americans

Introduction

After the Civil conflict, the South went through a period of rebuilding, termed Reconstruction, but because numerous white people in the South were not prepared to accept African Americans as equals, unjust regulations were passed which constrained the rights of very darks. These very dark ciphers and Jim Crow regulations left African Americans in a segregated world.

Life was better in the north in many ways for African Americans. The 1920s brought jobs and money—until The large Depression hit. The despondency made times more tough and left many homeless and jobless. The Harlem Renaissance completed, and numerous blacks left the cities searching jobs while they could find them. Despite the hard times that pursued, the large Migration had conveyed numerous blessings for African Americans.

Discussion

According to the Digital History online textbook, after World War I, African Americans started moving from the south states to the North. Because in the 1920s, became known as the Great Migration. African Americans were wanting the North had more to offer than the inhabits they lived in the South as sharecroppers, tenant ranchers and unskilled laborers. Unfortunately, the migration to the North offered its own set of difficulties for African Americans. The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million U.S. African Americans from the South to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930. Estimates of the number of migrants vary by time period used. African Americans migrated to escape racism and find employment opportunities in industrial cities.

The Second Great Migration 5 million or more people relocated, with migrants moving to more new destinations. Many moved from Texas and Louisiana to California, where there were occupations in the protecting against industry. From 1965-70, 14 Southern states, Alabama, especially Louisiana and Mississippi, contributed to a large net migration of blacks to the other three census-designated regions of the United States. At the end of the Second Great Migration, African Americans had become an urban population. Over 80 percent lived in cities.

Causes

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, less than eight percent of African Americans lived in the ...