The Great Migration was a period of mass migration to the New World from Europe between 1620 and 1640. During this time, thousands of people left their homes in England, France, the Netherlands, and other parts of Europe to start new lives in the Americas. The Great Migration was a
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld. In particular, continued lynchings motivated a portion of the migrants, as Black Americans searched for social reprieve. The historic change brought by the migration was amplified because the migrants, for the most part, moved to the then-largest cities in the United States at a time when those cities had a central cultural, social, political, and economic influence over the United States; there, Black Americans established culturally influential communities of their own.