What was the Great Migration and why was it "great"?

World War I

National Origins Act of 1924

Southern-to-northern transition

Rural-to-urban transition

"Step migration"

White migration & black migration
 
 

How was black experience unique?

Jim Crow South

Segregation

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

Grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test

Contract laws, vagrancy laws, emigrant agent acts

Lynching
 
 

How did African-Americans respond to segregation?

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. DuBois

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (aka, NAACP; 1909)

Response of ordinary people
 
 

What did African-Americans find in the North?

Segregation

Housing

Employment