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  • Essay / African Americans in the Post-World War II era

    This time after World War II, many African Americans had begun to become a more urbanized population center, around 1970. (Inmotionaame, p 1) The regular population included about 70 percent of the natural population living in more urbanized cities. (Inmotionaame, p. 1) Soon, African Americans dominated, having 80 percent of their community living and enjoying the same benefits in the more urbanized centers of the United States. (Inmotionaame, p. 2) Only about 53 percent of African Americans and others who appeared to migrate remained in the same area around the South. (Inmotionaame, p. 2) 1.5 million African Americans left southern regions for northern cities between 1910 and 1940. (Memory.loc.gov, p. 1) Then, from 1940 to 1950, An additional 1.5 million African Americans left the South and moved to Northern cities. (Memory.loc.gov, p. 1) Soon after, in 1970, there were more than 5 million African Americans in the North. (Inmotionaame, p. 2) The global structure and states of the United States underwent enormous geographic change, but what was surprisingly significant during this period after the end of World War II was its change in destination. (Memory.loc.gov, p. 2) One in seven Southerners moved from the South to the North, from the South to the northern or western states, immediately thereafter. (Faculty.washington.edu, p. 1) Large numbers, more than half a million African Americans left the two Carolinas - North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia during the period and the decade following World War II. (Wisconsinhistory.org, p. 1) California was able to experience almost all of the great impact it had with this migration, as many settled in California and neighboring states such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Inmotionaame,...... middle of article...... areas of the Southern states. Additionally, not only were African Americans migrating, but also urban consumers of the United States, or people known to be low-class or low-wage. Many people were also affected by these mass migration patterns (Faculty.washington.edu, p. 5) It was so brutal that the government did not. no longer needed physical labor to farm the sugar and cotton fields, so more and other technological innovations to support this change, such as tractors and the now famous new cotton picker, led the United States to. a great new moment in history, the Great Depression (Inmotionaame, p. 3). Overall, there were many migratory patterns of African Americans across the United States after World War II. This catastrophic commitment has given rise to many new and impactful ways of living for large numbers of people...