Causes Of The Great Migration

The movement that caused Southern African Americans to move mainly to the North is called the Great Migration. America needed workers during this time of change because it went from peace time to war. Which meant more men were getting deployed and shipped off to fight. The But America wasn't all unemployed, women did go to work but the most spots are getting filled by the abundant amount of African Americans moving from the South to the north.Northern factory managers sent labor recruiters to the South to bring black Southerners into the war industries of northern cities such as African American workers eagerly left their low-paying jobs as agricultural laborers and domestic servants in the rural South and headed north in massive numbers. African Americans found major jobs such meatpacking plants, shipyards, and steel Mills in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.
They believed that segregation, racism and prejudice against blacks would be a lot less intense and blatant in the North. Between the years of 1914 and 1920, approximately 500 million African Americans from the south just left plantations and the discrimination from the brutal Jim Crow and then they headed north because they believed it would be a lot better living for them. When they moved to the north they revived high paying jobs in the war industries. From 1910 to 1920, for instance, the black population of New York increased over 66% to more than 150,000, and the number of Cleveland's African American residents jumped 307% to around 35,000. Extraordinarily, during that same period Detroit experienced a 611% rise in the black population, to over