1. The Great Migration

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

3. Disenfranchisement
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Illustration of freedmen voting in New Orleans from 1867
Illustration of KKK members in Mississippi from 1872

4. Sharecropping
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African American family picking cotton in North Carolina between 1910 and 1920

5. Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904
Jim Crow Laws
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Political cartoon by John McCutcheon from 1904

6. in front of Waco, Texas, city hall on May 15, 1916
Lynching
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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?