why or why not?
2007-03-11 10:49:38 · 4 answers · asked by Dan s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It wasn’t a protest, rather it was people moving from primarily an agrarian society to an urban environment as evolving industrialization provided better jobs. Nor was it a black movement, there were as many or more white people making similar moves.
This increased during the depression and reached its zenith during world war two with the defense plants (located mostly in the North) needing new labor.
To try and frame this question (or answer) within the context of some racial expression is totally out of context of the event.
2007-03-11 11:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was more like the great escape. They went north for a better life,not as a protest.
2007-03-11 18:01:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose, of course, wasn't to protest, but to obtain work and earn their livings and build a better lives for themselves.
If only we could get more mass movements like that :) Of all races.
2007-03-11 17:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by dBalcer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, it was a protest against institutionalized racism, Jim Crow, sharecropping and lack of economic opportunity in the South.
2007-03-11 17:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by CanProf 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋