HIST 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jim Crow Laws, Grandfather Clause, Literacy Test
6 Jul 2017
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Of 9 million african americans: they are concentrated in the south during the middle passage. A great majority of former slaves stayed in the place whereas they were born. Many of them just sent to free the blacks, migrated after the slavery. 80% in the rural south: mainly mississippi, georgia, alabama, louisiana, karolina (deep south) 10% in the north: ny, boston, phil, detroit. 10% in the urban south or in the west: either urban south, people decided to go west for new opportunities. 90% people were still lived in the south. 2nd middle passage, migration slaves, baltimore, to the deep south. By the 1970s, after the great migration, almost half of them leave south. Most stayed in the region of their birth. 47% of blacks stayed outside of south by 1970s. More people in urban area than the country side. so no concentration in rural area any more. 6 million live in the south during this period.
