AAAS 2000 : AAAS Study Guide

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3/7/2012 5:05:00 am: joined hundreds of black and white teachers who migrated to south during and after the civil war to instruct freed people, opened penn school (sc sea islands) as part of the port royal. The rollin sisters: were closely associated with the black and white republican leadership in south carolina, enthusiastic proponents of women"s rights and suffrage, katherine and charlotte organized a women"s rights convention in. Columbia (1870) and formed south carolina branch of american. Black leaders (richard h. cain, harrison bouey, martin delany) urged black people to migrate to liberia. Black men organized the liberian exodus joint stock steamship company. Migration within south: many people left farms and moved to villages and towns in south, others went to growing larger black cities like, atlanta, richmond, nashville. Migration of african americans from the rural south to the urban north (after civil war) black population outside the south doubled by 1940.