The
Great Migration was the movement of 6 million
blacks out of the rural
Southern United States to the urban
Northeast,
Midwest, and
West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially
Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas, to the other three cultural (and census-designated) regions of the United States. Georgia was especially affected, seeing net declines in its black population for three consecutive decades after 1920.