HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jim Crow Laws, The Chicago Defender, Occupation Of Factories
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Black women"s work & the great migration: push/pull factors. Women"s lives within the context of the 1920s: All work is gendered, gendered dimension to that experience. Until wwi created a labor shortage, african americans only employed by northern industry as strikebreakers. Monday, april 9, 2018: when given a choice, they chose to get away from jim crow laws. Agricultural decline in parts of the south were one push factor. Wartimes job opportunities in south regarded di erently than those in both due to. Following to be self-supporting, very few people were able to do that. Minority of black southerners that gave up on migration. Problem is that opportunity is always gendered. In this particular situation (19th century south) the small but noticeable experience of rural to urban migration is women, because there was 0 job opportunities for black men outside of agriculture in the south. There is a noticeable phenomenon of rural to urban in southern black women.