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African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans (citizens or residents of the United States) with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American.
African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States (after White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans). Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved blacks within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of 78 percent West African, 19 percent European and 3 percent Native American heritage, with very large variation between individuals. Immigrants from some African, Caribbean, Central American, and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term.
Great Migration, Great Migrations, or The Great Migration may refer to:
The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross Episode 4- Making a way Out of no way 1897 1940
The Great Migration Explained: US History Review
History Brief: The Great Migration
Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America: African-American History (1991)
History of Chicago and The Great Migration: Carol Adams & Timuel Black - Shimer College Ideas Series
The Great Migration
The History of African American Women During the Great Migration
The Great Migration-Short
Overview of The Great Migration
A summary video lecture of the Great Migration, the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the Southern United States. Be sure to check out the video arsenal of over 350 videos at www.youtube.com/hiphughes
For teaching resources covering this and other topics from the 1920s, check out our workbook: http://amzn.to/1RZhrcj A short video regarding the Great Migration of the 1910s and 20s, including the causes and effects of the migration. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReadingThroughHistory
During World War I, tens of thousands of African Americans fled the South. In Up South, a Mississippi barber and a sharecropper woman tell how they organized groups to escape Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and forced labor. The promise of freedom and full citizenship drew them to Chicago. Once there, the migrants faced poor housing, discrimination on the job, and racial violence. They responded by forming women's clubs, engaging in political campaigns, and creating the "New Negro" movement. (Length: 30 minutes) *Also available in Spanish
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679733477/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679733477&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=7350db8fe97d17cf24b34e021ce2113f Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910--1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities, and after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), in which 5 million or more people moved from the South, including many to California and other western cities.[1] Between 1910 and 1970, blacks move...
http://shimer.edu ▶️ The documentary and oral history of Chicago & The Great Migration, a discussion between Dr. Carol Adams & Historian Timuel Black; Presented by The Illinois Institute of Technology in collaboration with Shimer College. --- This year Shimer College joins the City of Chicago in celebrating the centennial of the Great Migration during black history month and beyond. In anticipation for 2016, we are kicking off the remembrance and festivity with this video of two celebrated American contemporaries, Dr. Carol Adams and historian Timuel Black. In this talk, Adams and Carol draw on both oral narrative and documentary accounts of this watershed moment in American History, to paint a vibrant picture of pre & post civil rights movement Chicago—the struggles it faced and continues...
The Great Migration was a massive exodus from 1915 – 1970. Studies show that approximately 6-7 million African Americans left the caste system of the south to seek new futures in the north. This is a short project that provides insight on why African American women made the move and what they faced.
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Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/sabk/35/en/B01E02RO4I/trial When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute ethiopian Hebrew. god did not make us Negroes, declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black re...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/mabk/30/en/B01IIPCS5I/book The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. City squares became a church, the body politic a congregation, and sermons a jeremiad of social changeor so the story goes. In A Pursued Justice, Kenyatta Gilbert instead traces the roots of Kings call for justice to African American prophetic preaching that arose in an earlier moment of American history.in the wake of a failed Reconstruction period, widespread agricultural depression, and the rise of Jim Crow laws, and triggered by Americas entry into World War I, a flood of southern Blacks moved from the South to the urban centers of the North. This Great Migration transformed northern Black churches an...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B01IIPCS5I/book The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. City squares became a church, the body politic a congregation, and sermons a jeremiad of social changeor so the story goes. In A Pursued Justice, Kenyatta Gilbert instead traces the roots of Kings call for justice to African American prophetic preaching that arose in an earlier moment of American history.in the wake of a failed Reconstruction period, widespread agricultural depression, and the rise of Jim Crow laws, and triggered by Americas entry into World War I, a flood of southern Blacks moved from the South to the urban centers of the North. This Great Migration transformed northern Black churches and pr...
Get a free copy of the full audiobook and ebook: http://appgame.space/mabk/30/en/B00G76VU82/book The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the countrys demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism.between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew th...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B00G76VU82/book The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the countrys demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism.between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houstons close pro...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B002KKC178/book What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants to northern cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia but also its supply of cheap labor. Fleeing from racial injustice and poverty, southern blacks took their culture north with them and transformed northern urban centers with their churches, social institutions, an...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00G76VU82/book The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the countrys demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism.between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houstons close proximit...
The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930) explores the historic tide of African Americans moving north that changed Philadelphia, the United States, and the world. The center of this project created by Scribe Video Center is a series of commissioned media arts works that reveal the ties between the agricultural world the migrants left behind and the new industrial world they would in turn help create. A nationally-renowned team of artists (Julie Dash, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lonnie Graham, Tina Morton, and Mendi + Keith Obadike), explore five institutions that were created or reformed during the period of the first Great Migration. Moderated by Scribe Video Center Exe Dir Louis Massiah For more coverage of BlackStar2016 - http://www.tinseltine.com/2016/08/blackstar-film-festival-co...
In 1910, 83% of African Americans lived in the South, about the same percentage that had lived there since at least as far back as 1790. By 1970, the percentage of African Americans living in the South had fallen to just 40%. The Great Migration had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of American like, and has been called "the biggest under-reported event of the 20th century." This map shows how it happened. It displays the population changes of each state between 1910 to 1970. For more information about the Great Migration, read the full post: http://metrocosm.com/great-migration-visualization/
Learn more about the Great Migration at http://goinnorth.org World War I created a boom in war industries in the North. Philadelphia, like other northern cities found itself in want of workers, a problem that only became more severe when the United States entered the war. In 1916, the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to remedy the problem by offering free transportation north to African Americans in the South who were willing to work on the railroad. They provided free transportation to over 12,000 southern Blacks before the program ended in 1918. They represent only a fraction of the millions of African Americans who came north during the Great Migration. Of those millions, tens of thousands came to Philadelphia by boat and by train. The journeys these people embarked on defined their lives...
The Great Migration, a mass exodus of African Americans from the South during the years of 1910 to 1970, was one of the largest volunteer mass migrations in world history. What does the Great Migration teach us about immigration today? A little over a month after the Baltimore uprisings took place in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death, how does the movement for racial justice go beyond the issue of police violence.The Global African host Bill Fletcher examines these subjects with Dr. Marcia Chatelain, Professor of African American History at Georgetown University, Adam Jackson, CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, & Bob Moore, retired Baltimore union leader and civil rights activist. teleSUR http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/the-global-african-399708/
Finding a causal effect of migration on mortality. [Show ID: 23613]
In december 2013 we made a safari to Lake Manyara, the Central Serengeti and Ndutu in the southern part of the Serengeti. The main reason for this journey was to experience a part of the Great Migration of the Gnu or Wildebeest, Zebra and Gazelles. The Serengeti did not disappoint us. After many months of drought the first rains began to fall when we arrived early december. The Serengeti plains changed color within a week from dry yellow to fresh green. These slowly from north to south moving rains, made the herds of Wildebeest leave the woodlands and crossing rivers, to the fresh pastures in the south (Ndutu) where they will give birth to their calves in February. About 350.000 animals are born within only a couple of days. This also means that the same number of animals die during their ...
American History: From Emancipation to the Present (AFAM 162) In this lecture, Professor Holloway documents the "Great Migration," beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century and continuing with increasing pace until the mid-1920s. During this time, black Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North. This general shift in the population marked a moment of self-determination for African Americans, demonstrating that they were prepared to leave behind the lives they had made in the South for better opportunities elsewhere. It is important to see these migrations as a form of social protest against the limited political and economic opportunity in the South, racial violence, and the KKK, which was reborn and flourished in the early 1920s. As Professor Holloway revea...
In recognition of Black History Month, Lellingby Boyce performed a program titled “My Grandmother, The Great Migration, and African-American Spirituals” on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 at the Davis Senior Center. Boyce’s earliest public performances in Davis focused on African-American spirituals and African-American storytelling. Since then, she has presented recitals of art songs and operatic arias, and audience-participation programs of Broadway’s gems. For this program, Boyce returns to African-American spirituals and enlists the audience in sing-alongs. But the story she tells this time is about her grandmother and the seminal historical event that dramatically altered her grandmother’s life. This seminal event is known historically as the Great Migration, one of the largest internal mi...
Through a grant from the National Urban League's Project Ready Historical Cultural Literacy Project, students from Cincinnati Public Schools research, interviewed and documented stories of the Great Migration and its effect on the Greater Cincinnati region. Stories of the migration were told from several perspectives - educators, historians, authors, military service, community elders, community activist and performance artists. The motivation for the migration were a combination of the desire to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south and the promise of greater opportunity in the north. The great migration was the mass movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960.