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The Great Migration

• In large numbers African-Americans began leaving the South around 1910, moving to the North. This came to be known as the Great Migration.

• African-Americans abandoned the South for economic, political, and social reasons.

• Three of the "push" factors out of the South were:
  • The boll weevil insects' effect on cotton farming
  • Re-Emergence of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Discrimination and prejudice

• Five of the "pull" factors to the North were:
  • Industrialization and World War I
  • Newspapers
  • Relatives' reports
  • "Freer" racial climate
  • Voting rights

• Alabama reacted by:
  • imposing migration fees
  • implementing economic development and retention