1. Jacob Lawrence
Painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through art.

2. Migration
During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern blacks.

4. Family and Community
The strength of family and community bonds was tested by the many threats to healthy living that the migrants encountered in the urban North.

5. Education
In the North they had better educational facilities.

7. Neighborhood
During the 1920s and 1930s, as a result of the combined forces of the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, and the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem blossomed into a community with a strong and unique identity.

8. Injustice
Among the social conditions that existed, which was partly the cause of the migration, was the injustice done to the blacks in the court.

9. Discrimination
They also found discrimination in the North although it was much different from that which they had known in the South.

10. Struggle
Many white workers in the North feared the competition for jobs that was created by the migration of blacks from the South.

11. North/South
Many northern blacks also felt that southern migrants would not "fit in" in northern urban life. They often urged newcomers to exchange their rural dress and manners for more "acceptable" behavior and styles.

12. Labor
Railroad companies regularly issued their employees passes for free travel, and many southern blacks used their passes to migrate north.

13. Woman Workers
The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South.

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