The Great Migration

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1. Story
2. The movement of an estimated six million Black Americans out of the rural South to cities of the North, Midwest and West between about 1916 and 1970, driven by the violence and legal subordination of the Jim Crow South and pulled by industrial labour demand that opened during the First World War. At the start of the twentieth century around nine in ten Black Americans lived in the South; by 1970 close to half lived in Northern cities. It is usually described in two waves, roughly 1916–1930 and 1940–1970. Musically it is the second great involuntary-adjacent relocation in this Journey — not forced in the sense the Middle Passage was, but not freely chosen either, since what people were leaving was terror and peonage. It moved Delta players to Chicago, Texas players to Los Angeles and Carolina players to New York, concentrated audiences with wage income in cities with electricity and record shops, and converted an acoustic rural practice into an amplified urban one within a generation. The geography of American popular music after 1945 is largely the map of where those trains went.
3. Knowledge
4. Chicago
5. Blues
6. The Great Migration
7. Connections
8. Blues
9. Chicago
10. The Great Migration
11. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
12. Colonial prohibition of drumming
13. The Mississippi Delta
14. Jazz
15. Guitar
16. The Great Migration
17. Samba
18. Race records
19. W. C. Handy hears a guitarist at Tutwiler station
20. The Great Migration
21. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
22. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
23. Home Insurance Building, Chicago
24. The Home Insurance Building is completed in Chicago
25. Chicago Marathon
26. The first Chicago Marathon, as the Mayor Daley Marathon
27. The Great Migration
28. The Great Migration
29. Evidence
30. An estimated six million Black Americans moved from the South to the North and West between 1916 and 1970, conventionally in two waves (1916–1930 and 1940–1970); around ninety per cent of Black Americans lived in the South at the start of the twentieth century and close to half lived in Northern cities by 1970. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this reference entry and corroborating university and museum accounts; no page was opened and no census table was consulted.