The Great Migration

The Great Migration was a period in when blacks migrated North to escape the hardships, economic oppressions, and unusual cruel punishments to create better lives for themselves and their families. The African American women wanted to work in the day and to be with their families after. They felt vulnerable to white men if they had to stay as live-ins. Migrating North, black women found jobs as domestic servants or washerwomen. Their work was difficult, low-paying, and often dangerous! Their lives were basically the a little better, only excluding the oppression and the white men, but other than that, it was the same. In my opinion, I think the Great Migration was literally their only choice that they had. There was no other options, unless death.