The Great Migration Case Study

During the 1900’s, African Americans in the South encountered various struggles such as segregation, sharecropping, and lack of education. Despite these difficulties, more than six million African Americans moved North with high hopes and the search for equality. In Harlem, many African Americans expressed their culture and their feelings in music and literary work. The Great Migration influenced this Harlem Renaissance by offering writers, artists and musicians a place where they could develop their talents. Arna Bontemps was an inspirational poet in Harlem who expressed his ideas through poetry. He helped African Americans earn equality through “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” to a great extent. The literary voice during the Great Migration influenced the explosion of life and culture in Harlem.
The Great Migration is the relocation of six million African Americans from the south cities across the Northeast, Midwest and West. The Southern economy was one of the causes of the migration. The Jim Crow Laws of the South continued to separate the African Americans from the white population. Sharecropping kept the African Americans in the cycle of…show more content…
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