Part 1 of Essay
A movie that tells the history of African Americans moving from Southern cities to the North and West. It is mostly told by several older Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. It explains the struggle and success of the travel for African Americans to have a better life. In the late 19th century, early 20th century ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... year’s crop as payment. Sharecropping soon became a thing of the past. Mechanical cotton pickers were invented, which worried sharecroppers. These machines could greatly do more work than by hand, and would be cheaper than to pay field hands to work for them. So the sharecropping was obsolete, and African Americans were driven out of their jobs and even homes. This lead to the migration of African Americans. It was hard for them, because they did not want to leave their families and communities. Chicago s ....