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Some historians differentiate between a first Great Migration (19161930), which saw about 1.6 million people move from mostly rural areas to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (19401970), which began after the Great Depression and brought at least 5 million peopleincluding many townspeople with urban skillsto the north and to California and other western states. The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.[1] Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South.[2] In 1900, only one-fifth of African-Americans living in the ... Great Migration (African American) The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. In 1900, only one-fifth of African-Americans living in the South were living in urban areas. By the end of the Great Migration, 53 percent of the African-American population remained in the South, while 40 percent li CHAPTER 5: THE NEW GREAT MIGRATION A REVERSE MIGRATION. The last decades of the 20th century marked a new migration trend - by 1970 there were more African Americans heading to the South than leaving it. It was already in the late 1960s that the number of African Americans moving to the South eclipsed the number leaving. Aug 14, 2016. The migration that accompanied India's independence and partition in 1947 was the largest movement of peoples in human history, but almost no one expected it to happen. During World War I there was a great migration north, first panel of the Migration Series (1940-41), painting by Jacob Lawrence Demographic changes The Great Migration drained off much of the rural black population of the South, and for a time, froze or reduced African-American population growth in parts of the region. The Middle Passage. 1 The journey between Africa and the Americas, The Middle Passage, could take four to six weeks, but the average lasted between two and three months. Chained and crowded with no room to move, Africans were forced to make the journey under terrible conditions, naked and lying in filth. chapter 5: the new great migration a reverse migration The last decades of the 20th century marked a new migration trend - by 1970 there were more African Americans heading to the South than leaving it. CHAPTER 4: THE GREAT MIGRATION A MASS MOVEMENT NORTH. The Great Migration was one of the largest migrations ever of the African American population. Many scholars consider it as two waves, between 1916 and 1930, and from 1940 to 1970. The Great Migration saw a total of six million African Americans leave the South. the first wave: out of the rural south Work, both lack of it and opportunities, was a major reason for leaving the South. In the 360 years between 1500 and the end of the slave trade in the 1860s, at least 12 million Africans were forcibly taken to the Americas - then known as the New World to European settlers. This largest forced migration in human history relocated some 50 ethnic and linguistic groups. Query: how long did the great migration last
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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.