Monday, November 29

Homework: Today in class, you got a reading and had questions to answer that went along with it. Whatever you were not able to finish during class is homework. If you were absent, you'll find a link to the reading below and the questions you'll need to have answered. Due next class.

Questions: The Great Migration (Attention: the title is the link to the reading)
Please answer on a separate piece of notebook paper!!

1. What does the term the “Great Migration” refer to?
2. What were the reasons that many participated in the Great Migration (can break down into economic, social/political and personal if that helps)?
3. What methods were used to draw African-American workers to the North?
4. Explain why “migrants were not typical southerners in many ways.”
5. What challenges did African Americans face on the “journey North”?
6. What role did family, friends, Churches and African-American newspapers each play in fostering the Great Migration?
7. List the shifts in the African-American population between 1910 and 1920 given for several major cities.
8. Why did the employment of African-American workers become a source of resentment for white workers?
9. How did migration alter black employment patters?
10. In what ways were African-Americans discriminated against in the workplace?
11. What help existed for new African-American migrants to Northern cities?
12. Why problems did African-Americans face in finding housing?
13. Describe the “Red Summer.”

Great website on the Great Migration!