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1 The Great Migration

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

3 Disenfranchisement Left image retrieved from Right image retrieved from Illustration of freedmen voting in New Orleans from 1867 Illustration of KKK members in Mississippi from 1872

4 Sharecropping Image retrieved from African American family picking cotton in North Carolina between 1910 and 1920

5 Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904
Jim Crow Laws Image retrieved from Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904

6 in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916
Lynching Image retrieved from The mob preparing to lynch Jesse Washington, an 18 year-old African American, in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916

7 Distribution of African American Population in 1900
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8 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.

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

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

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


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