Definitions for GREAT MIGRATION
great migra·tion

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1. Great Migration

   The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration, numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities, and after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration, in which 5 million or more people moved, including many to California and other western cities. Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to the other three cultural regions of the United States. More townspeople with urban skills moved during the second migration. By the end of the Second Great Migration, African Americans had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent of blacks lived in cities. A majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent lived in the North, and 7 percent in the West. A reverse migration had gathered strength since 1965, dubbed the New Great Migration, the term for demographic changes in which many blacks have returned to the South, generally to states and cities where economic opportunities are the best. Since 1965, economic difficulties of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the "New South" with lower costs of living, family and kinship ties, and improving racial relations have all acted to attract African Americans to the Southern United States in substantial numbers. As early as 1975 to 1980, seven southern states were net black migration gainers. African-American populations continue to drop throughout much of the Northeast, particularly with black emigration out of the state of New York, as well as out of Northern New Jersey, as they rise in the Southern United States.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GREAT MIGRATION in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GREAT MIGRATION in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of GREAT MIGRATION in a Sentence

1. Cortni Borgerson:

   Brood X cicadas are one of the world’s most incredible animal phenomena, in a year where few of us may be traveling to see natural wonders like Africa’s great migration, or the elephant gathering of Sri Lanka, we are incredibly privileged to have this rare spectacle occurring in our very own backyards. Brood X provides an infusion of nutrients into the ecosystem, and humans have been enjoying this event for its sights, sounds and taste for millennia.

2. Anthony Khamsei:

   Another fantastic wild adventure to enjoy in the low season is a safari in Kenya's Maasai Mara, high season, July to September, coincides with the Great Migration. But head out in quieter months to pay half price.

3. Craig Johnson:

   There is a great migration away from apparel, the little growth they are clocking is being done over very discounted pricing so margins this year are going to be weak in most of the category.

References

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