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Post Slavery Black Migration In the United States Of America During the 20th Century “ The North was the Promised Land. It was the land of hope. But it was not quite the fulfillment of the Promised Land as we had anticipated. Yes, they had better jobs, your children could go to better schools, and they could vote. But there were so many other obstacles, like racism: the transfer of the Jim Crow of the South, to the racism of the North.” -Timuel Black, historian Between the turn of the century and 1930, more than 1 million black southerners set out on one of America’s most important mass movements. These people migrated from the South’s countryside to the cities in the North. They hoped to find better jobs, a new sense of citizenship, and a new respect for themselves, their families, and a chance at a new life. In 1863 the black population experienced the abolition of slavery by the Emancipation Proclamation, but slavery lasted many years until their arrival in urban America. To understand why they left the rural South we first must black, south, african, blacks, americans, north, new, life, whites, people, laws, population, land, jobs, chance, century, between, migration, even, equality, cotton, cities, better, while, violence, united, states, slavery, segregation, rural, racism, picker, out, northern, migrants