Why did black people leave the South in large numbers during the Great Migration?

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Answer 1

Answer:
1. Define the Great Migration as the migration of nearly two million black people from the southern to the northern states in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The migration was part of several large movements of black people during slavery and post-slavery eras.
2. Explain that push and pull factors motivated black people to leave the South. They were pushed by segregation, lynching, and natural disasters.
3. Explain that black people were also pulled to the northern cities by higher-paying jobs, integrated educational facilities, political opportunities, and the absence of lynching and segregation in general.
4. Conclude that the Promised Land of northern cities contained its own challenges of inhabiting the inner-city environment of large cities in America.