Second Great Migration

The Great Migration? Many Blacks Returning To The South

NEW YORK — Nearly fifty years ago, Blacks retreated from the South to elude the implications of segregation. Ironically, today many Blacks, in New York especially, are migrating back to the South in search of economic refuge.

About 17 percent of African-Americans who moved to the south in the past decade came from New York, according to census data. Additionally, of the 44,474 people who left New York State in 2009, more than half (22,508) fled to the South, according to a study conducted by Queens College for The New York Times. Numbers also reveal the amount of Blacks, many of whom are college educated, moving to the South from other states in the East and Midwest is at the highest level its been in decades.

This surge of relocation to the South, for most migrants, is attributed to the economic downturn. Many middle-class African-Americans are faced with financial hardships that have propelled them to seek geographical alternatives. One alternative is the South, where one may arguably live more financially secure.

The New York Times Reports:

The movement marks an inversion of the so-called Great Migration, which lasted roughly from World War I to the 1970s and saw African-Americans moving to the industrializing North to escape prejudice and find work.

Spencer Crew, a history professor at George Mason University who was the curator of a prominent exhibit on the Great Migration at the Smithsonian Institution, said the current exodus from New York stemmed largely from tough economic times. New York is increasingly unaffordable, and blacks see more opportunities in the South.

GOING BACK ON THE PLANTATION!

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE NEGROIDS MIGRATE TO; THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED THE SAME.

“We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy; we’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy. And the generation that’s coming up now can see it and are not afraid to say it. If you go to jail, so what? If you black, you were born in jail. If you black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you’re south.” -Malcolm X

“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE NEGROIDS MIGRATE TO; THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED THE SAME.”

Don’t use hyperbole to make your point. You can’t say a black person will be treated the same in Berkeley, California as he will in Boone County, West Virginia. If your point is that you can find racism anywhere, fair enough. But don’t pretend like its the same everywhere.

George Curry: African Americans and the Great Migration

( ThyBlackMan.com ) When two million Blacks moved from the rigidly-segregated South to the North, West and Midwest from 1910 to 1930, it was called the Great Migration. When another five million African-Americans fled the South between 1940 and 1970, many seeking good jobs and a better life in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, it was called the Second Great Migration.

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk thinks it is now time for a Third Great Migration, this one to far-flung cities around the world. He advanced that argument in his office, which is directly across the street from the Old Executive Office Building.

“Whether you’re Black, White, Brown or whatever, the No. 1 concern of American families is: ‘Where am I going to find a job? More importantly, where is this kid that I just spent x amount of money getting out of college  going to find a job?’”

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