Black history question?

Question

beginning in the early 20th century many black southerners began moving from the south to the north to escape southern poverty and racism name this flight that was a major turning point in the Afro-American experience.

Answer 1

The Southern Diaspora
How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America


Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions.

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http://uncpress.unc.edu/FMPro?-db=pubtest.fmp&-format=a-detail.html&-lay=layout2&-op=eq&BOOK%20title%20id=T-5196&-Script=visited&-find

Answer 2

it's called the Great Migration

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Great Migration was the movement of over 1 million[1] African Americans out of the rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1950. African Americans moved to escape the problems of racism in the South and to seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North........

Answer 3

Good question... and my mind is drawing a blank... was it called "the deconstruction era"? Hmmm...