What Are the Causes of the Migration of African Americans?
plantation image by Christian De Brito from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/i1/m3/causes-migration-african-americans_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); African Americans relied on agricultural jobs for survival in the south. Within the 20th century, the African American population underwent a gradual migration from the southern parts of the United States to the northern. Also known as the “Great Migration”, harsh living conditions in the South coupled with low-paying jobs and racial prejudice caused African Americans to migrate to the north in an attempt to find a better way of life. Living Conditions It is often termed “the Great Black Migration” and began in the 1910s and lasted through most of the 1930s, according to the University of Northern Iowa. During the early part of the century, agricultural production was the primary means for earning a living so many African Americans held sharecropp
