HILD 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Boll Weevil, Homestead Acts, Sharecropping
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Bidding farewell to the south: the great migration. Martin delany still a proponent of emigration to liberia: emigrating to africa was the preference for many blacks during the post- Reconstruction period: economic difficulties made it impossible for many to make it happen. Allensworth, ca: about 11,045 blacks in the state of ca by 1900; by 1910, the number had risen to. 22,000: substantial numbers of blacks did not migrate to california until the 1930s and. 1940s: many took advantage of the homestead act. Migrants increasingly look north: black migrants in the 1870s through the 1890s more likely to head west, to. Economic push factors of the early great migration: extremely low wages, dead end of sharecropping, boll weevil (insect that eats cotton buds, destroys crops) and floods. Economic pull factors of the early great migration: labor shortages during world war i (1914-1918) because: Northern industries received huge orders for war materials: thousands of new industrial jobs available, higher wages.
