Basics
The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North between 1916 and 1970.
What was the Great Migration?
The Midwestern city that became a major destination for African Americans and home to the “Black Belt.”
What is Chicago?
The 1920s cultural movement celebrating African American creativity in art, music, and literature.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The practice that limited where African Americans could live in northern cities.
What was housing discrimination or redlining?
The region whose racial makeup changed due to the Great Migration.
What is the North?
The global event that created new job opportunities in northern factories, sparking the Great Migration.
What was World War I?
The New York City neighborhood that became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Harlem?
The genre of music that spread from the Mississippi Delta to northern cities during the migration.
What is the blues?
The form of hostility African Americans continued to face even after leaving the South.
What is racism?
The poet who captured the spirit of the migration in works like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
Who was Langston Hughes?
The discriminatory laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
What were Jim Crow laws?
The Michigan city that became a hub for Black workers in the auto industry.
What is Detroit?
The artist who painted The Migration Series.
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
The economic consequence southern landowners faced when Black workers left.
What was a labor shortage?
The movement for racial equality that the Great Migration helped lay the foundation for.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
The types of jobs that attracted African Americans to northern cities.
What were industrial or factory jobs?
The West Coast city that attracted many African Americans from Texas and Louisiana.
What is Los Angeles?
The states where African Americans gained new political power and voting rights.
What are northern states?
The types of workplaces where many migrants found jobs during World Wars I and II.
What were war-related factories or defense industries?
The art form most influenced by the cultural changes of the Great Migration
What is music (especially jazz and blues)?
The decade after which the second wave of the Great Migration began.
Question: What was the 1940s?
The Pennsylvania city that saw a large increase in its Black population due to steel industry jobs.
What is Pittsburgh?
The major mid-20th-century movement influenced by the Great Migration.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
The segregated but culturally vibrant areas that grew in northern cities.
What were Black urban neighborhoods or communities?
The approximate number of African Americans who left the South by 1970.
What is six million?