During the 1930s, many African-Americans migrated from the rural South to big cities in the North in search of work, this movement is called The Great Migration. <span>During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illiniois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. </span>
"The Great Migration<span> was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970."</span>