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The strengthening of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, with 4 and a half million adepts, produced disastrous effects for the African American community. Hundreds of thousands of peasants poured into the metropolis. The Great Migration of blacks to northern industrial cities was therefore determined also by the desire to leave behind the South of Jim Crow Laws and escape a culture of lynching violence. Between 1890 and 1920 about a million of African Americans left the lands of...
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Introduction The Great Migration, a defining chapter in American history, commenced in 1916 and continued until 1970. This era witnessed over six million African Americans relocating from the agrarian South to the industrialized North, a move that profoundly altered the demographic fabric of the United States. This exodus was fueled by a quest for better economic prospects and an escape from the restrictive Jim Crow laws prevalent in the South. These individuals, in seeking new horizons, not only transformed their...
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Art is a highly personal and subjective form of expression and is often inspired by real events or other art pieces. The various forms of art often offer another layer of depth to other forms of art when used in tandem with each other, such as with music and dancing or poetry and paintings. As with most art, any poem or painting may have multiple subjective meanings, but when interpreted together, one may be able to look at the deeper...
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The Great Migration, A.K.A Great Northward Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1916 and 1970. The primary causes were the poor economic conditions as well as the mass racial segregation and discrimination. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, white supremacy prevaled across the South in the 1870s, and these segregationist Jim Crow policies soon became laws. Blacks in the south were forced to make...
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Although the period around World War I and the early 1920s was an era of economic growth due to industrializing, the strong economy did not heal race divisions. As a matter of fact, in some areas, racial conflict was exacerbated as a result of the improving economy such as during the Tulsa Race Riots, where whites were jealous of the prosperity of African Americans. In other areas, due to African American migration, racial tensions increased as a result of cultural...
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