How Great Migration Exposed Racial Division Flashcards
American Dream?
Better opportunities
Freedom from violence and harassment
What exposed
No equal opportunity
No equal resources
Huge discrimination
No equal opportunity
Last to get hired, first to get fired. Many ppl didn’t want to work w black ppl bc of huge discrimination giving them the least desirable jobs
No equal resources
Restaurant refusing to serve
Banks refusing to give loans
Utilise were separated, cemetery, beaches, parks, bathrooms
Housing
The biggest economic division that still plagued the nation
How was housing not fair?
Segregated white neighborhoods terrorizing and mobbing any blacks that tried to move in
Ex: housing movement, creating organizations that would vandalize their homes and property at night to try to scare them away
Realtors refused to show them houses in those areas and some wouldn’t help them at all
Where could blacks go?
The only place they could go was urban areas and cities. Living in slums
What now
Racial wars caused huge tension and division that is still seen today. Many cities look different and still segregated