Jim Crow Era and Great Migration

Jim Crow Era

A period of racial segregation laws and practices in the Southern United States from the late 1870s until 1965.

Plessy v. Ferguson

A landmark Supreme Court decision in 1896 that legalized segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and ended segregation in public spaces.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

A landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibited racial discrimination in voting.

Great Migration

The mass movement of six million African Americans from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West from 1915 to 1970.

Push Factors

Conditions that drive people to leave their homes, such as poor economic conditions and racial oppression.

Pull Factors

Conditions included encouraging reports of good wages and living conditions that spread by word of mouth and that appeared in African American newspapers.