Chicago

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=The Great Migration (1916-1970) = Source Citation: "Great Migration." 2014. //The History Channel website//. Jan. 28, 2014, 10:20. http://www.history.com/topics/great-migration


 * === 6 Million African Americans relocated from rural south to northern cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago ===
 * Causes: Poor working conditions as sharecroppers and continued segregation policies (Jim Crow laws); Outbreak of WWI and need for more workers in industrialized northern cities
 * Relocation of 1 million African Americans by the end of 1919 created competition with northern whites for jobs and living spaces.
 * In 1917, "U.S. Supreme Court declared racially based housing ordinances unconstitutional.
 * In response, residential neighborhoods enforced their own segregation
 * Chicago race riots of 1919 that "lasted 13 days and left 38 people dead, 537 injured and 1,000 black families without homes."
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 * Creation of African American "cities within big cities" such as Harlem in NYC.
 * Harlem Renaissance was an artistic movement begun during the 1920s by African American writers, painters, and musicians.
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 * ("The Harlem Renaissance." 2014. The History Channel website. Jan. 28, 2014, 10:41. http://www.history.com/videos/the-harlem-renaissance.)
 * Onset of WWII would continue the movement towards greater racial equality
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 * ("Rise! The Road to Civil Rights." The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. PBS. November 19, 2013. Jan. 27, 2014. 5:40-10:40.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/#702)
 * The Civil Rights Movement would grow from the foundation laid by the African American artists of the 1920s and the returning soldiers of WWII.
 * Post WWII, white families began moving out of the cities into the newly created suburbs. De facto segregation continued in the suburbs where "some residential neighborhoods enacted covenants requiring white property owners to agree not to sell to blacks; these would remain legal until the U.S. Supreme Court struck them down in 1948"
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 * "Whereas in 1900, nine out of every 10 black Americans lived in the South...by 1970 the South was home to less than half of the country's African Americans..."



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=“A Dream Deferred” =

Langston Hughes
= = =What happens to a dream deferred? = =Does it dry up = =like a raisin in the sun? = =Or fester like a sore— = =And then run? = =Does it stink like rotten meat? = =Or crust and sugar over— = =like a syrupy sweet? = =Maybe it just sags = =like a heavy load. = = = =Or does it explode? =

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