The Great Migration The History and its Impact Great Migration Richard Wright Author of NATIVE SON and BLACK BOY Great Migration World War I The start of the Great Migration. Change in Immigration to U.S. 1914 1918 1,218,480 110,618 Six million blacks left rice plantations, tobacco farms, cotton fields and fruit groves to go North. Great Migration headed North… Painting by Jacob Lawrence Moving North Black family arrives in Chicago (www.blackpast.org/.../great-migration-1915-1960) Cotton sharecroppers during the 1930s Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History Teaching Motivation to leave the South • Push Factors: • Pull Factors • Jim Crow • Bad economy • Lynchings • Better jobs • Less discrimination • Higher wages Farm mechanization spurred migration www.foresthistory.org/.../images/fig97.jpg Jim Crow Laws Marriage Barbershop Burial Service in restaurants Baseball Use of parks Sale of liquor Separate entrances… OnStage Atlanta Theatre Company 2597 N. Decatur Rd. Atlanta, GA 30033 Great Migration www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/132478/1/Ge Three who made the trek north. Ida Mae Gladney George Starling Robert Foster Dr. Robert Pershing Foster ebookfriend.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5bd... General John J. Pershing bp.blogspot.com/__dCb5tmxOb0/TNn1lPUJXOI/AA... Bill Russell receiving Presidential Medal thatsenuff.com/.../bill-russell-barack-obama.jpg Leaving the South painting by Jacob Lawrence Dr. Robert Pershing Foster ebookfriend.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5bd... In Nashville, Tennessee img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/9532dcbf-5619-... Buick Roadmaster www.2blowhards.com/1947%20Buick%20Roadmaster.jpg Nuevo Laredo, Mexico texaswatertowers.com/.../postcard_laredo_1.jpg Travel Guide abagond.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/greenbook... Lordsburg, New Mexico www.vintagepostcards.org/cathy/lordsburg-nm-n... On to Phoenix… Dr. Robert Pershing Foster ebookfriend.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5bd... Heading to California Dr. Foster’s Trek to California Monroe to Houston (350 Miles – 7 hours) Houston to Nuevo Laredo (300+ miles – 6 hours) Nuevo Laredo to Lordsburg, NM (766 miles – 15 hours) Lordsburg – San Diego (600 miles – 11 hours) Dr. Robert Pershing Foster ebookfriend.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5bd... Ray Charles www.nndb.com/.../ray-charles-younger.jpg “Hide Nor Hair” djdiddywah.com/pix/RayCharlesHideNorHair.JPG Dr. Robert Pershing Foster ebookfriend.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5bd... Great Migration New York, Chicago, St. Louis Painting by Jacob Lawrence 1916 - 2016 Great Migration Culture…. •Repertoire of beliefs and behaviors •Assumptions and conduct •Reflects history and teaching •Change over time Great Migration
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