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The Great Migration
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Disenfranchisement
Illustration of freedmen voting in New Orleans from 1867
Illustration of KKK members in Mississippi from 1872
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Sharecropping
African American family picking cotton in North Carolina between 1910 and 1920
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Jim Crow Laws
Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904
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Lynching
The mob preparing to lynch Jesse Washington, an 18 year-old African American, in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916
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Distribution of African American Population in 1900
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The Great Migration
• 1910 – 90% of all African Americans
lived in the South, and 75% lived on
farms.
• WWI – 500,000 African Americans
moved from the South to Northern
cities.
• 1920s – 800,000 African Americans
moved from Southern states to
Northern cities.
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Newark’s Population
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Newark’s African American Population
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Central Historical Question
Why did African Americans
migrate to Newark at the
beginning of the 20th century?