The Ku Klux Klan was re-founded in 1915 on Stone Mountain in Georgia. Bolstered by the Propaganda from Griffith's Birth of a Nation, violently racist sentiment ran rampant in a south governed by men who had grown up with stories from Confederate war vets bitter over their defeat. Those sympathies created lax enforcement of laws for Africans Americans, which resulted in widespread violence including lynching's, dragging's, beatings, and the famous terrorist tactic of burning a cross.
The Great Migration to the North by six million African-Americans, who had for the most part, remained in the south after slavery, was one of the largest migrations in history. African-Americans headed north for industrial job opportunities. By the end of the migration, African-Americans had become an urban group with more than 80% living in cities.
beacusethey didnt like the laws there
Black flight
They were forced to move west or north or to live on reservations
The Great Migration began to reverse itself because of the changing economy. The southern economy began to grow again and there were more job opportunities in the south.
Black codes were laws passed in the southern united states. These laws limited the rights of African Americans to work, move, and to have general activities.
North
north
To get better jobs and to get away from segregation.
cities in the north
The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
A pull factor that brought African Americans to the north was freedom. The south was being run and build on the backs of slaves and many African Americans wanted to be free. Many took to escaping using the Underground Railroad to reach the north. However, some were found and brought back.
Because they were more acceptant of blacks.... unlike th South whom inslaved them and worked them to death (racism)
How did the homestead act encourage freed African Americans to move to the great Plains
The movement northward of African Americans between 1915 and 1930 was called the Great Migration. The need for labor, the education opportunities, and safety called to the southern blacks to move up north.
they did not welcome them
In the Great Migration, which took place in 1910-1930, millions of African Americans "migrated" to the Midwest, Northeast, and West of the United States from Southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. A second movement -- New Great Migration -- has been occurring since 1965 and is essentially the reverse of the Great Migration, with African Americans moving to the "New South" where job growth exceeded that of the North and racism/discrimination has abated.
that the African Americans hoped to escape discrimination and find better education and economic opportunities.