Great Migration

Events

NAACP founded in New York on Febuary 12, 1909.

1909

National Urban League is established; its goal is to help Southern migrants find jobs, housing, and adjust to city life.

1911

Great Migration started

1915

Booker Washington died on November 14, 1915.

November 14, 1915

The Chicago Urban League opened its doors in 1917.

1917

NAACP reached 300,000 members.

1918

By the end of 1919, some 1 million blacks had left the South.

1919

The Associated Negro Press is formed.

1919

Alain Locke publishes The New Negro.

1925

Harlem's African-American population reaches 200,000.

1930

1929 there were 25,000 in the north and Ford employed approximately half of them.

1932

The second wave started in about 1945 and ended in 1970.

1945

The Great Migration Ended.

1960