Flow 1:
African-American Migration Pattern: Flow 1 Forced Migration From Africa
Most African-Americans are decents from people brought to the Americas through Triangular Trade. Many slaves were captured by other Africans who were paid by the European traders off of the coast of West Africa. Slaves were sent across the Atlantic Ocean to all parts of the Americas including North America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and South America.
Open Slave Trade 1.pdf & Slave Trade 2.pdf the to examine the maps of the Triangular Slave Trade.
Where are most of the African slaves being sent to? Why there?
Open Slave Trade 3.pdf the to see how slavery played a role in the settlement of African Americans in the Southern regions of the United States.
How do you think African Americans were segregated socially, economically, and politically in the United States?
Flow 2:
African-American Migration Pattern: Flow 2 Immigration to the North
As the United States started to industrialize at the turn of the 20th century, many African-Americans migrated to northern cities searching for job opportunities. As workers were sent to fight in World War I & World War II, many African-Americans replaced white workers during the war; thus, causing more populations to migrate north.
Open AA Migration North 1.pdf the to explore how segregation in the South and new job opportunities caused African-Americans to move north.
Open AA Migration North 2.pdf the to examine the chart.
Rank the US cities from mostly moved to to least moved to.
Open AA Migration North 3.pdf the to examine how African-American increased during the years after WWII and throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1970s.
How do you think this voluntary migration of African-Americans will effect the culture of urban areas?
Do you think other minority groups followed the trend of the African-Americans?
flow 3:
African-American Migration Pattern: Flow 3 Expansion of the Ghetto
The term ghetto has been involved in human vocabulary since the early Middle Ages. A ghetto is a neighborhood where Jews were forced to live in harsh conditions. The term diffused to North America and started to be used in modern time to describe neighborhoods in urban areas that were abandoned by European settlers and replaced with minority populations.
Many ghettos in urban areas have high concentrations of population in a small land area. Poverty is very high, crime rates are very high, and unemployment rates are very high. Baltimore, Maryland has seen a shift in Afrian-American populations that have expanded these living conditions.
View the map to examine the shift of African-American populations in Baltimore, Maryland:
Watch the video and notice the living conditions in these neighborhoods within Baltimore, Maryland:
