2. The Great Migration Started In 1915.
Over 6 Million Black African American Migrated
from the South to Northern states.
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On June 7 of 1894 a
colored man from
Louisiana name Homer
A. Plessy sat in the
white only section of a
train car.
1896 the case of Plessy
v. Ferguson the
supreme court sided
with the south and
declared “separate but
equal” as constitutional.
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February 5,1915 Pennsylvania had begun
undercover scouting of cheap black labor
In May 1916 Fifteen thousand man, women
and children gathered around to watch a
Eighteen year old boy named Jesse Washington
as he got burned alive in Waco, Texas.
Many Blacks Moved from the south to northern
states like New York, Philadelphia and Detroit.
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In the early 1930s nearly 2 out f every 3 colored
migrants came from towns or cities of the south
and went to the north and west.
In 1948 two whites beat a black tenant because
he asked for a receipt after paying his water
bill.
In 1958 a new segregated bus station was built
in Jacksonville, Florida.
