GEOG 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Isabel Wilkerson, Right Of Asylum, Tgm
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#29: african american migration of millions went unnoticed because other issues were focused on. Vox: why african-americans left the south in droves. Our south is a different south from the ones blacks originally left. Black belt people moved to metropolitan areas starting the 20s. Strict immigration laws during ww1, requirements of unskilled labor for manufacturing. 1952: multicultural skill-based immigration brought new african migrants. White flight to suburbs : blacks also move to suburbs, back to south. Migration a search for agency, not fleeing from violence. #33: move from rural areas to urban areas. #34: move from urban areas to urban areas in the south. Ted: isabel wilkerson: the great migration and the power of a single decision. Migration without a guarantee that they would see family members again. Fleeing the land of their birth just to have their citizenship recognized. North had a labor problem due to immigration restrictions looking for cheap labor from african americans (unpaid sharecroppers)
