Great Migration (African American) - Second and New Great Migration

Second and New Great Migration

The Great Depression of the 1930s somewhat lessened the mobility seen in the earlier migration, which rebounded during World War II. After the political and civil gains of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), in the 1960s, mobility began to increase again.A collection of personal narratives of former domestic servants who migrated to Iowa during the Jim Crow era. Their typical motives for telling their stories is so the younger generation will know what they endured and how far they have come (The Maid Narratives, van Wormer, Jackson, and Sudduth, 2012, LSU Press).

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