Active Viewing: <em>Up South</em> worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students organize information from the documentary <a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/" target="_blank"><em>Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War</em></a>.
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2011
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1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Active Viewing: <em>Up South</em> vocabulary sheet
These words and phrases from the <em>Up South</em> documentary may be unfamiliar to students.
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2011
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1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Active Viewing: <em>Up South</em>
In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/">Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War</a></em> with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, sharecropping, migration, and life in northern cities. At the end of the activity, students complete a short writing task on how life changed and how it stayed the same for migrants, and how they tried to improve their lives in the North.
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2011
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English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Active Viewing: Up South Activity Writing Prompt
This is a writing prompt for the Active Viewing: Up South activity.
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2011
1894
English
For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South
This article explores the return migration of African Americans from New York City to the South, reversing the Great Migration that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Dan Bilefsky
Dan Bilefsky, "For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South," <em>The New York Times</em>, June 21, 2011; at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html?pagewanted=all<br />
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2011
English
Contemporary US (1976 to the present)
Black Chicagoans Describe their Migration Experiences worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students draw historical understanding from the experiences of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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1888
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Black Chicagoans Describe Their Great Migration Experiences
Civil Rights and Citizenship
In the summer of 1919, violence broke out between whites and African Americans in Chicago. The five-day riot left thirty-eight people dead and more than five hundred people injured. The city formed a Commission on Race Relations to study what happened during the riot and what conditions in the city contributed to the violence. As part of that study, the Commission surveyed recent African-American migrants from the South. These questions and answers are a selection from the larger survey.
Chicago Commission on Race Relations
Chicago Commission on Race Relations, <em>The Negro in Chicago</em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922), 97-102.
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1922
1889, 1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Map of Migration Routes Followed by African Americans During the Great Migration
Between 1910 and 1930, more than one million African Americans moved out of the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West. They sought economic opportunity, freedom from racial segregation, and safety from lynching and other kinds of racist violence.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
<em>In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience</em>, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, http://www.inmotionaame.org/gallery/detail.cfm?migration=8&topic=10&id=8_003M&type=map&page=
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1916
1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Description of Sharecropping
Work
This short essay describes the sharecropping system that supported the agricultural economy of the South after slavery.
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2011
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1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Bar Graph of Lynchings of African Americans, 1890-1929
From 1890 to 1900, an average of 175 African Americans were lynched each year. Lynchings were attacks motivated by racism where white mobs brutally murdered black victims, sometimes in the night, but often in a public way with many witnesses. Lynch mobs often hung their victims, but also sometimes burned or tore apart the victim's body. African-American men were the most common targets of lynch mobs, but women were also hurt and killed. White public officials in the South did not criticize lynching, did not punish those responsible, and often supported the actions of lynch mobs. African Americans (most notably the journalist Ida B. Wells) fought back against lynching by trying to bring national attention to the issue.
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“Lynchings by Year and Race,†University of Missouri Kansas City Law School, http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html and Isabel Wilkerson, <em>The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration</em> (New York: Random House, 2010), 39.
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2011
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1894
English
Modern America (1914-1929)