What does the following tell you about why some African Americans felt the need to migrate: “How did you feel about those people
that you left behind and weren't ever going to see again? Well, I think it comes back to a matter of trying to exist, really, and trying to improve your own lot.”
The primary factors for migration among southern African Americans were segregation, indentured servitude, convict leasing, an increase in the spread of racist ideology, widespread lynching (nearly 3,500 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968), and lack of social and economic opportunities in the South.
