n search of better jobs, better schools and less racism (Segregation in theUnited States 5-9). Between 1910 and 1930 alone, 1 million blacks moved to the North. Because of the great number of blacks in the North, they still did not find many open jobs and, and lived in dirty and run-down places. Crime, despair and poverty all became normal to the black community (African Americans 2).Because many of the black people had moved to cities, it made the number of blacks grow in certain areas, giving them the amount of power needed to elect officials. The blacks influence on the outcome of the political races were realized by the politicians, who began to support civil rights and oppose segregation. Blacks began to winmany votes as well, which quickened the the pace of civil rights and changed the political landscape (Segregation in the United States 10). The blacks migrating to the North did not have all positive results though. Most of the blacks looking for jobs were under-qualified, leaving only such jobs as laborers or servants open, which was muchlike their jobs in the South. And those who found a job were lucky to have a job at all, because many blacks could find no job, leaving them to live with other job-less blacks in unsanitary and run-down housing. This type of housing grew, creating black slums, or ghettos,and promoted segregated schooling because it was separated from the white community (African Americans 3).This migration was also not without violence. The competition for jobs and housing between blacks and whites drastically increased, which became a reason for the great hostility that grew. Also, the black soldiers returning home after World War I expected to come home to equality and justice, and the reality was a rude awakening to them.Blacks were still subjected to segregation in the North, including with jobs, neighborhoods and beaches, yet this was a more of a de facto segregation than a de jure segregation, compared to...
