*African-Americans+-+The+Great+Migration

__**Guiding Questions: ﻿ **__
 * Discuss African-Americans' migration to the North (Why did they migrate, where to, and how did their lives change as a result?).
 * Discuss the hardships faced by African-Americans during the 1920s and the African-American community's efforts at combating discrimination, racism, lack of equality, and etcetera.
 * Discuss the accomplishments of important African-Americans during this time period (activists, writers).

Ann L,.Pd 2

===Throught the early 1900's, the South became known for the African Americans like Margaret Walker as a ''sorrow home". LIfe was not easy for them and many african americans were sharecropping farmers who paid the landowners a part of their crop in exchange for rent of their land.Jobs were scares and also low paying and prejudice about them. They were the last to get hired and the first to get fired. The african american women for example were allowed to work as household for the white men ad that kept them from being rapped in poverty. === ===There were several factors contributed to the African Americans decision to leave the South but the World War 1 and the Boll Weevils were the major factors pulling them to the North.The war halted a large amounts of men to leave their jobs and come helping in the army and also filling the jobs spot. The North was so desperate that they even offered to pay the southern travelers the journey costs.While in the South a boll weevil infestation of cotton fields forced many sharecroppers and laborers to search for alternatives employment opportunities.That's when the //__Great Migration__// started which is a long-term movement of African Americans from the south to the Urban North transformed Chicago and other Nothern cities. The Great Migration helped educated African American obtain jobs, eventually enabling a measure of class mobility, the migrants encountered significant forms of discrimination. But because so many people migrated in a short period of time in such cities as Chicago,Detroit, New York, and Cleveland discrimination started among the new European immigrants as well. Later, racial discrimination in the North, although it was sometimes more sublte than the South. The Morgage discrimination started at a point where the just come african american could not settle in the inner cities or obtain to a fair price. In the long term, the National Housing Act of 1934 contributed to limiting the availability of loans to urban areas, particularly those areas inhabited by African Americans. === Factors that led to the Great Migration: || > ||
 * = * Discri﻿mination
 * The Boll weevil
 * Jim Crow Laws
 * World War 1 and the Immigration Act of 1924 created more jobs in the North
 * The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Lynchings-graph.png width="379" height="377" align="left" caption="File:Lynchings-graph.png"]]

Click Below to Watch a Video about the Great Migration:
[|watch[1] << >> [[image:http://www.freedomarchives.org/audio_samples/images/Margaret_Walker_Alexander.jpg width="323" height="383" align="center"]] ===Though they were mistreated the North offered a lot more opportunities and more African Americans were getting educated and helding some electoral status in their own comunity.They formed their church and play their own music known as Jazz which is rooted into the story of slaver. Later on it spread across the World. === ===﻿Authors like Margaret Walker ,Olaudah Equiano and musician as Luis Armstrong were born and made African Americans more social and educated. African American writing also tended to incorporate within itself oral forms such as spirituals, sermons as spiritual, gospel music,blues and rap.[[image:http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00796/equiano-extra_796170f.jpg align="right" caption="Olaudah Equiano"]] ===

Ann Pd 2

//__**Resources:**__//

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 * Andrews, W., Foster, F., and Harris, T. (Editors).//The Oxford Companion to African American Literature//. Oxford, 1997.
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