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Title: United States: Great Black Migrations, 190070

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Although African Americans had been leaving the South since the days of slavery, it was not until the 20th century that they migrated on a massive scale to begin new lives in the industrial cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. As millions of African Americans left the region of their birth between 1900 and 1970, they contributed to the dramatic redistribution of the nation's black population and eventually shifted the center of African American social, economic, political, and cultural life from the rural South to the urban North and West. From Harlem to Watts, black migrants built new communities that anchored the growth of black business and capital, created new trends in black art, literature, and culture, and mobilized new forms of politics that proved critical to the grassroots assault on Jim Crow later in the 20th century.

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Authors: Reich, Steven A.

Publisher: The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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