African American migration from Georgia, 1914-1918: a study of the causes of the northern urban migration and the socio-economic conditions in the state related to the movement, 1993

Drame, Diedy

1993-07-01

1990-1999

During the World War I years a mass exodus of African Americans from the South to the North occurred, induced by a myriad of socio-economic and social factors. Many of these factors existed in the South well before 1914. Black Americans, however, did not pull up stakes in the South until the Great War broke out, creating in the North job vacancies and acceptability for African Americans, subsequent to the European immigration deficit. The answer to the question as to why they waited until 1914 rests predominantly with social and economic reasons. Georgia, for all it represented in the South, provides a brilliant case study for an analysis of the causes of the northern urban migration of African Americans and of the social and economic conditions related to the movement.

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Master of Arts (MA)

Clark Atlanta University

Department of History

Henderson, Alexa

Clark Atlanta University

Georgia--Atlanta

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