thejazzpoet:

 Jacob Lawrence’s painting depicting migration north

The resistance of blacks in the South took another form as the new century began.  They simply left the area.  In 1910 the first wave of black migration came north.  During that decade 300,000 blacks moved, mostly to the large urban areas of Chicago, Detroit, and New York.  From 1920 to 1930 the second wave of 1,300,000 came north.  The third wave in the 1940s of 2,500,000 completed the largest migration in U.S. history.

(Source: billiesbluesday)