Great Migration

English

Proper noun

the Great Migration

1. (US, historical) The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
   • 2015, Sabina G. Arora, The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, →ISBN, page 10:

     The pull factors in the Great Migration included encouraging reports of good living conditions and jobs with good wages in the North and West.

Further reading

• Great Migration (African American) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia