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Author(s): Doyle, Rodger
Source:
Scientific American. Feb2004, Vol. 290 Issue 2, p25-25. 1p.

Additional Information
- Subject Terms:
  EMIGRATION & immigration; POPULATION geography; MANUFACTURING industries; COTTON picking; SOUTHERN United States history, 1865-1951
- Subject Terms:
  UNITED States Report Available
- Abstract:
  Presents observations about the substantial migration of southern blacks to the northern United States during the period between 1916 and 1918. Consideration of the appeal of manufacturing industries in the North; How newspapers were responsible for attracting many southerners to higher-paying jobs; Suggestion that migration was spurned by the invention of the mechanical cotton picker in the 1940s; Impact of the boll weevil on the success of the cotton crop in the south.

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