The great migration

The Great Migration, a long-run action of African Americans from the South to the built-up North, changed Chicago and other to the north towns between 1916 and 1970. (Shannon p.659) Chicago captivated somewhat more than 500,000 of the roughly 7 million African Americans who left the South throughout these decades. Before this migration, African Americans constituted 2 per hundred of Chicago's population; by 1970, they were 33 percent. (Stowe p.45) What had been in the nineteenth 100 years a mostly south and country African American heritage became a heritage profoundly infused with built-up receptivity in the 20th century, and ...