The Great Migration

The History and its Impact

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Richard Wright

Author of NATIVE SON and BLACK BOY

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World War I

The start of the Great Migration.

Change in Immigration to U.S.

1914

1,218,480

1918

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: • Jim Crow

• Bad economy

• Lynchings

• Pull Factors • Better jobs

• Less discrimination

• Higher wages

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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

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Three who made the

trek north.

Ida Mae Gladney

George Starling

Robert Foster

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Dr. Robert Pershing Foster

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General John J. Pershing

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Bill Russell receiving Presidential Medal

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Leaving the South painting by Jacob Lawrence

Dr. Robert Pershing Foster

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In Nashville, Tennessee

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Buick Roadmaster

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Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

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Lordsburg, New Mexico

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On to Phoenix…

Dr. Robert Pershing Foster

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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

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Ray Charles

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Dr. Robert Pershing Foster

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New York, Chicago, St. Louis

Painting by Jacob Lawrence

1916 - 2016

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Culture….

•Repertoire of beliefs and behaviors

•Assumptions and conduct •Reflects history and teaching

•Change over time

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