1. The Great Migration - The Promised Land
This called for the greatest migration of half a million blacks out of the South into the North and Midwest. ... According to Nell Painter in Creating Black Americans, there are particular factors which drove black southerners to the North. One significant influence of the migration was black newspapers encouraging black Southerners to leave. ... That is to say black southerners felt safer in the North and freer to engage in their black community. ... As the increasing number of black southern immigrants populated the North, black southerners began to transform both black and white America. ...
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