African-American History

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In this article, the writer notes that between 1914 and 1929, approximately one million African-American individuals moved from the rural south to the more industrial north in a mass exodus known as the Great Migration. The writer discusses that this movement was caused by a number of economic, environmental and social forces that together made life in the northern states far more attractive to the African-American population. The writer discusses those forces and looks at how they interacted to help create one of the largest migrations in U.S. history. The writer then looks at the black power movement that rose from the freedom movement of the 1960s.

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"The simultaneous convergence of these leaders, groups, and movements, is easy to understand when one considers the environment of the Harlem area during the early 1900s. With vast numbers of new African American citizens having come from the racist south, the area was ripe with social, political, and cultural concepts that come with new found freedom. In such a charged atmosphere, leaders such as Garvey had an audience ready to listen, and motivated for change. As their empowerment became reality, the view of those individuals altered, and with assistance from groups such as the UNIA, their ideas became reality, creating a new social order and an entirely new cultural center."

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