Great Migration (African American)

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/great-migration-african-american

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the migration period?1910-1970
2. What is the estimated migrant population?Approximately 5 million African Americans
3. What was the Great Migration?It was a huge movement of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970 to find better jobs and safety.
4. Why did people leave the South during the Great Migration?They left because of Jim Crow laws, sharecropping debt, and fear of violence like lynchings, which made life hard.

Jim Crow Laws: System of state and local laws in the Southern US that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Agency: The capacity of individuals to act independently and make their own free choices.
Demographic Shift: A significant change in the characteristics of a population, such as its distribution or composition.