The Great Migration

Map retrieved from http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/7100/7119/7119z.htm

Disenfranchisement Left image retrieved from http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?strucID=722317&imageID=812624 Right image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_ku_klux.jpg Illustration of freedmen voting in New Orleans from 1867 Illustration of KKK members in Mississippi from 1872

Sharecropping Image retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012648380/ African American family picking cotton in North Carolina between 1910 and 1920

Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904 Jim Crow Laws Image retrieved from http://www.knowla.org/image/3791/&view=summary Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904

in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916 Lynching Image retrieved from https://lccn.loc.gov/95517067 The mob preparing to lynch Jesse Washington, an 18 year-old African American, in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916

Distribution of African American Population in 1900 Image retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census_1900_Percent_Black.png

The Great Migration 1910 – 90% of all African Americans lived in the South, and 75% lived on farms. WWI – 500,000 African Americans moved from the South to Northern cities. 1920s – 800,000 African Americans moved from Southern states to Northern cities.

Newark’s Population Data drawn from Price, C.A. (1994). The beleaguered city as promised land: Blacks in Newark, 1917-1947. In M.N. Lurie (Ed.), New Jersey Anthology (pp. 436-461). Newark: New Jersey Historical Commission.

Newark’s African American Population Data drawn from Price, C.A. (1994). The beleaguered city as promised land: Blacks in Newark, 1917-1947. In M.N. Lurie (Ed.), New Jersey Anthology (pp. 436-461). Newark: New Jersey Historical Commission.

Central Historical Question Why did African Americans migrate to Newark at the beginning of the 20th century?