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
- Arrival of whites in Mississippi
- Awareness of / Being in history
- Baby Boom
- Battle of Bull Run
- Carpetbaggers
- Civil War
- Civil War as point of reference
- Civil War consequences
- Colonization
- Compromise of 1850
- Confederacy / Confederate States of America / C.S.A.
- Explorers
- Founding fathers
- Frontier outlawry
- Indian Removal
- King Cotton
- Pre-World War II issues
- Prohibition
- Reconstruction
- Southern secession
- Stealing Indian land
- Surrender at Appomattox
- Transatlantic migration
- War of 1812
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: History›Great Migration | Race›Segregation | Region›North
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