Driven in part by economic concerns, and in part by frustration with the straitened social conditions of the South, in the 1870s African Americans began moving North and West in great numbers. In the 1890s, the number of African Americans moving to the Northeast and the Midwest was double that of the previous decade.
<span>Sharing a small living space with family
members. During the industrial revolution, people from the countryside came to
cities in multitudes looking for greener pastures by obtaining jobs in
factories. For this reason, the family members had to live together in small
spaces.</span>
