Moving North: African Americans and the Great Migration 1915-1930

by Monica Halpern

Book Overview

After the Civil War, the South went through a period of rebuilding, termed Recon-struction, but because many white people in the South were not ready to accept African Americans as equals, unfair laws were passed which restricted the rights of blacks. These Black Codes and Jim Crow laws left African Americans adrift in a segregated world.Life was better in the North in many ways for African Americans. The 1920s brought jobs and money--until The Great...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792283589
• ISBN13: 9780792283584
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3