Explore how the individual migration stories connect to or compare with the general Great Migration “push” and “pull” factors, that motivated so many African Americans to leave the South.

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OPTION #2
Long Interviews as main resource

Six million African Americans escaped or ran away from their homes in the U.S. South (typically rural) to seek refuge in the North (typically urban) as a solution to a host of challenges they faced in the south. Explore your individual interviewees’ descriptions of problems (lack of opportunities, racial terrorism, personal reasons, etc.) they faced in the South or their original location, and how they used migration as a tactic to escape these problems. Explore how the individual migration stories connect to or compare with the general Great Migration “push” and “pull” factors, that motivated so many African Americans to leave the South. To help draw these micro-to-macro connections consider the following course themes: resisting enslavement (i.e., escape),
leadership tactics, and African American socio-economic status and demographics.

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