HIST 1377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alaine Laughton, Asthma
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A movement from the rural south to the urban north. Or, movement from the rural south to not-so-rural south. (louisiana to. Alabama, mississipi, louisiana, arkansas mostly migrated to chicago, illinois, and indiana. Florida, south and north carolina migrated up to new york, philadelphia, and. Some people migrated individually, some migrated with entire families. Sometimes women migrated alone, sometimes husbands and children migrated and left women behind. Migration based on economic state at the time. Reasons for migration: wanted to escape violence and segregation, others wanted to escape harsh farming system, access to healthcare. Hope that chicago and new york would be the promised land . Southerners in uenced northern culture though their forms of worship and forms of eating/cooking style. When african americans arrived in places like harlem or chicago, they were arriving with a large in ux of caribbean immigrants. Ww1 was important because there was a desire for factory work positions.
