Cultural Issues: History Great Migration
Description
This term is widely used by historians to refer to the movement of some six million African Americans out of the South and into the urban North and West between the First World War and the 1960s. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp, who in the 1930s leaves Yoknapatawpha to live in Chicago in "Go Down, Moses," is an example of a character who participates in the Great Migration. SR
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- American historical myths
- American Revolution
- Archaeology
- Arrival of whites in Mississippi
- Attack on Atlanta
- Awareness of / Being in history
- Baby Boom
- Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Shiloh|Pittsburg Landing
- Burr conspiracy
- Carpetbaggers
- Civil Rights legislation
- Civil War
- Civil War as point of reference
- Civil War consequences
- Colonization
- Compromise of 1850
- Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A.
- European
- Explorers
- Founding fathers
- Frontier outlawry
- Indian Removal
- King Cotton
- Ku Klux Klan
- Moving away
- Negro troops
- New Deal
- Pre-World War II issues
- Prohibition
- Reconstruction
- Silver Shirts
- Southern secession
- Stealing Indian land
- Surrender at Appomattox
- Transatlantic migration
- War of 1812
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Region›North
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Urban | Crime›Murder | Government›Demographics | History›Great Migration
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Art›Sculpture | Body›Eyes | Body›Face | Body›Hair | Body›Straightened hair | Texts›Census
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration
Themes and Motifs: Art›Jazz music | Memory›Collective memory
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Harlem
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Segregation›Marriage | Sexuality›Incest
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Inheritance›Property | Inheritance›Traits | Money›Filthy lucre | Naming›And caste | Objects›Hunting horn | Values›Love
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Familial›Interracial
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term
Environment: Place›Penitentiary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Urban | Crime›Murder | Government›Demographics | History›Great Migration | Identity, Cultural›Northerner
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Deracination | Art›Sculpture | Body›Straightened hair | Texts›Census
Relationships: Familial›Descendants
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Accent
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Modern fashions | Economy›Advertising | Economy›Industrialization | Entertainment›Radio | History›Great Migration | Progress›Consumerism
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Popular magazines
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Tractors | History›Great Migration