The great migration of African Americans
African American immigration through Angel Island.
From 1910 to 1940, Angel Island was the place where immigrants from America and foreign countries were processed through before landing on American soil.
Harlem, New York during the 1920s Great Migration.
In the 1920s, Harlem's African-American population exploded — with nearly 200,000 African Americans inhabiting a neighborhood where there had been virtually no blacks 15 years earlier.1
Members of the American Nazi Party march with signs across the street from Chicago's Greater Mount Hope Baptist Church, the site of a meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights workers on Aug. 19, 1966.2
Reverse Great Migration-African Americans move back to the south from failed cities in the North, but instead of going back to the rural counties, they move to the suburbs.
Many African Americans move to San Francisco and go work in the shipyards of Bayview-Hunters Point, which becomes a predominantly black neighborhood.
During the Great Migration, African Americans brought new styles to the United States, such as music and dance styles: this was called the Harlem Renaissance.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration/videos/the-harlem-renaissance?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration/videos/the-harlem-renaissance?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
All immigrants had many difficulties for survival in San Francisco: very little food and water, poor and dangerous jobs. The African Americans, however, had to also face segregation.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration/videos/civil-rights-act-of-1964?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
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