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Black Americans who migrated north were no longer disproportionately working as sharecroppers or de facto slaves. Although their conditions did not drastically improve with migration, it gave rise to greater autonomy, as illustrated through cultural and social movements as Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, Black Nationalism, and the Black Arts Movement. Although many of these artistic and political movements were the direct product of or response to U.S. racism and the continued fight for equal rights.
Blacks had to put up with the whites in the north feeling threatened. They also had to compete with the newly arrived southern and eastern European immigrants. The perceived economic threat of blackness gave way to race riots and northern segregation. Besides racial tensions, housing became a key issue because whites did not want to occupy the same spaces as blacks. Sociologists argue that this history laid the foundation for the urban ghetto long before postwar discriminatory housing policies.
Black political organizing and movements were not limited to North America. Black sociologists and artists were the first to examine Black people in the city. W.E.B. Du Bois was the first to study Black life in a major city. James Weldon Johnson, St. Clair Drake, and Horace Cayton, all engaged in the question of how the geography of the city transformed Black life, and how in turn Black people transformed the city. All three studies demonstrated that the economic, political, family, and cultural life of black people were drastically altered by cities. It was not only seen as a different place where black people lived, it was a new arena for the evolution of black life that presented new opportunities and new challenges. "
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Moving north, Black Americans were no longer overwhelmingly sharecroppers or de facto slaves. Race riots and northern segregation resulted from the perception that blacks posed an economic threat.
The the quote gives a brief idea about how the Black lives grew in the North. The difficulties and challenges they faced are narrated in the quote.
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