African American Voices in the 1920 played a big part in the voices of African Americans today. In the 1920s, blacks began the long, tiring, and stressful move to the Northern Cities.
Great Migration was a very big movement of African Americans! A lot of people for some reason get this mixed up with another migration dealing with immigrants from other countries. They are completely wrong though! This migration was a movement of millions of blacks across the United States. Most of the African Americans came from where they were slaved for years. The Southern United States. Where did they go you ask? Well the 6 million blacks that moved to the North settled down in the Northeast, Midwest, and the West. Amazingly, out of all the African Americans that did the Great Migration to the North ended up in living in the cities.
Violence was high though for the 6 million African Americans who moved to the North. You think of the North as a welcome place for blacks since they helped free them in the Civil War. That wasn't always the case though. In order to stop the violence the blacks had to team together to stop it! That is exactly what they did. A new group in 1909 was founded, It was called National Association for the Advancement of Color People or also known as the NAACP. You're wondering what this group did, well this group incouraged all the blacks to team together to fight back against racial violence. E. B. Du Bois and James Wheldon Johnson were the main people in this group. What is really cool, 10,000 blacks held a parade to fight back against racial violence!
Although the blacks went through of that trouble just to end racial violence it didn't work. Every day, Every night, day after day, week after week, blacks still geting threats from the whites. What happened? The Blacks created their own society.
I think it is cool how 6 million African Americans migrated to the North to get a better life. I hate how the whites treated them badly. Everyone is equal no matter what your color.
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