The Great Migration in America

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ABSTRACT

The great migration was one of the most crucial events in the history of America. During the Great Migration, somewhere around six million black people had moved out of the Southern part of America to North Side of the country. The great migration has a great significance for the black people in America, as this ignited the end of the slavery in America. A number of writers have covered the great migration in a number of ways; Jacob Lawrence was one of the most famous painters amongst them. We had applied the secondary research method analyze different literature regarding the great migration.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Background of the study1

1.2 Introduction2

1.3 Problem statement3

1.4 Aims and objectives of the research3

1.5 Research questions4

1.6 Rationale of the study4

1.7 Significance of the study4

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW6

2.1 The American Dream6

2.2 Slavery in America8

2.3 The economic theory of migration11

2.4 The Socio-emotional sentimental theory12

2.5 Migration theory13

2.6 Early approach to migration theory14

2.7 Antebellum, great migration and the civil rights era15

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY19

3.1 Rationale for a Qualitative Study20

3.2 Research design20

3.3 Justification of secondary research method21

3.4 Criteria for searching literature21

3.5 Keywords22

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS23

4.1 African Americans in the workplace23

4.2 Discrimination of the Labor Unions against Blacks23

4. 3 Analysis of literary writers on the great migration26

4.3.1 Toni Morrison and the great migration26

4.3.2 Langston Hughes and the great migration27

4.3.3 Zora Neale Hurston and the great migration28

4.3.4 Jacob Lawrence's and the great migration of America29

4.4 The Harlem renaissance30

4.5 Analysis of poetic works in the Harlem Renaissance31

4.5.1 Claude McKay and Marcus Garvey: Poets ...