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For centuries, it has been wandering their home countries in search of a better life elsewhere by Americans. For instance, during the Gold Rush of the 1850s, people who came to California with dreams of finding mineral wealth were 100,000 Americans from all over the country. However, the Gold Rush – and all other cross-border mass migrations – were dwarfed by the Great Exodus (or called Great Migration) which was maybe the most important demographic shift in the past of American. Ranging from 1915 to 1970, it was moved from their homes in the south of America with dreams of a life with better conditions in the country's northern cities by an approximate 6 million Black all genders. What caused so many of these Black Southerners to start this difficult journey into an uncertain future? Why was he leaving such a powerful gesture? And how did these personal decisions switch America forever? Through the real-life stories of three immigrants, it is investigated in this summary the social, historical, and personal forces behind the Great Migration. There is the determined Ida Mae Gladney who left a communal farm in Mississippi for the city of Chicago in the 1930s; Entrepreneur George Starling, who fled Florida and went to New York in the 1940s; And avid Robert Foster, who concentrated on a better future, took him to Los Angeles in the 1950s, where he became a popular doctor. Chapter 1 - What owned many reasons, sources, and goals was The Great Migration. Imagine that you are a black American, so, probabilities are high that the strings of the connection between the Great Migration and the fabric of your family tale interlocked. Ranging from approximately 1915 to 1970, it was moved from their houses in South America to begin a fresh life in the North by an estimated six million Black human beings. Whether they traveled themselves or viewed their relatives and friends depart, with the move, nearly all Black Americans were influenced, and moreover, the countenance of the country was switched. Even though what is the largest and most important transborder exodus in the US date is the Great Migration, it continues an under-studied and frequently presented wrongly phenomenon because of several causes. That it is not a united, single-aim, organized movement is the very concrete of these things. The people who did not see themselves as part of a movement were Black people from Southerners who immigrated to the northlands. After all, every person in this group owned complicated reasons why they are going. These reasons can be that either they were sick of residing like second-class national, afraid of totally lynching, avoiding personal trouble, or charmed with stories of cash and liberty from employers, buddies, and families in the North. Jim Crow laws were one predominant cause for the mass emigration of Black people of the South. Following the official abolition of slavery in 1865, it was found by the Southern states that many ways to prevent Blacks from applying their fresh achieved liberty. Because of these measures that named "Jim Crow" after a beloved show figure, Black people were forbidden from using similar buildings, services, and stores like whites. They strengthened common agricultural practices that left black farmers in debt to white farm owners and were utilized to lend support for the terriblely lynching of blacks by white gangs. And so, the people who fled from everywhere of the South such as from cotton-wool fields in Mississippi, smoke (or named tobacco) plantations in Virginia, and sultry cities in Alabama to Northlands big cities like Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia for a better life were Black ones. Another important effect was fighting. Over World War I, the exit from the South was combined with a northward pull. Because of the war, it induced workforce deficiencies in many cities in the North and now began sending recruiters to demand inexpensive Black workforce over the South. When the movement started, it only earned acceleration and reached its peak anew as of World War II. In the coming sections, the true-life tales of three immigrants from three distinctive gadgets of the Great Migration: George Swanson Starling, Ida Mae Brandon Gladley, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster will be observed by us. Chapter 2 - People who left Mississippi farms for better pay and safety were Ida Mae and her family. It was the summer of 1928 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, and Ida Mae had become a young woman. Although she had always been a bit of a tomboy, now, at the age of 16, the boys were beginning to notice the little, fearless farmer's daughter. Presently, a quiet young man called George came to her house each Sunday trying to win his hand by getting married. Ida Mae's mother, a pragmatic woman named Miss Theenie, was not very happy with her daughter's suitor. Several of his children had already migrated north and required all the aid she could find on the farm. However, George's determination finally won both mother and girl, and in October 1929 the young couple married. Presently, they were hired as sharecroppers and moved into a small house on a cotton plantation owned by a man called Edd Pearson. The deal was that George and Ida Mae would look after the cotton areas throughout the year and hand over the yields for Mr. Edd to sell. Per year at the time of settlement, shareholders were assumed to receive their dividends. In practice, but this calculation mixed what they "owed" the white plantation owner for land, house, fertilizer, and everything else he would treat as expenses. Eventually, most shareholders left these settlements empty-handed. It was felt a bit more fortunate with Mr. Edd by Ida Mae and George because he generally gave them a little amount of money. Still, Ida Mae was not very great at selecting cotton and the Great Depression was paying off. The couple discovered it increasingly difficult to promote themselves and their two young kids. Later, in 1937, things got tougher. A white woman accused George's cousin of stealing her turkey. A group of white men followed down his cousins, tied him to a pig, and attacked him mercilessly. Although he survived the night, he never was himself again. For George, that was the last straw. They would finally leave behind the exploitation and violence of the racist South and try their luck in the North, in Illinois, where George's brother and Ida Mae's sister live. At first, what Ida Mae was reluctant to do was leave her mother and younger sister behind. However, George had decided on both. Therefore, they waited for their next deal to gather money for their big journey. And in the fall of 1937, the young family got into an overcrowded Jim Crow car on the Northbound train and set out for a fresh life. Chapter 3 - It fled Florida to escape persecution for labor organizations by George Starling. The person who grew up on his father's cotton and tobacco land in Florida Eustis was George Starling. However, he envisioned a diverse life for himself. He desired to go to college - a pretty big image for a Southern Black boy in the 1930s. George was an excellent student, and after being one of the few children to graduate from an all-Black high school, he was allowed into the Agricultural and Mechanical State College in Tallahassee. George loved his novel student life in Florida. However, his father never really understood the purpose of this education. Therefore, when he was in his second grade, his father told him that he could no longer afford the tuition. George was angry. Despite her father, he decided to marry her high school sweetheart Inez. However, now he had a wife to promote, and so he had no selection but to return to Eustis, like many other black youths in Florida, he got a job picking oranges and grapefruits. Moreover, to this, he took all sorts of odd jobs he could discover. He planned to earn sufficient money to send Inez to beauty school so that he could finally continue his education as well. He spent several months working at the Chrysler factory in Detroit one summer during WWII. When he got back, working circumstances in the South quickly felt unbearable. Fruit pickers, for instance, were paid only a few cents per fruit box, although they had to climb trees dangerously for their work. It was decided by George to begin working on the farms again and lead a strike to his fellow foragers to demand a higher price for their precarious work. The labor shortage that arose as a result of the Second World War worked in their favor; The plantation owners had no selection but to meet their demands. It was begun by George to gain a reputation as a troublemaker after organizing multiple strikes in diverse fields. His friends and family were particularly worried that one of these white plantation owners would finally take terrible revenge. That's when it was decided by him it was time to move from Florida forever. He would try his opportunity in New York and send it to Inez after settling down. It was traveled by George lightly and quietly to avoid suspicion. He got on the Silver Meteor train along the east coast and watched the "white" and "colored" markings on the wagons empty as the train crossed the invisible line north. In the north, the train was no longer separated. That's when he realized he was going to make the correct decision. Chapter 4 - The person who left Louisiana to promote his career without the constraints of Jim Crow was Pershing Foster. In the 1930s, the Foster family was recognized by everyone in Monroe, Louisiana.