ABSTRACT
The Great Migration, starting in 1915 and continuing in waves from then on, has brought changes in the distribution of Negroes in the United States. There are no comprehensive statistics on internal migration in America. Census data on population increase of the several regions from one decade to another, and on the state of birth of individuals, will have to be relied upon for giving what indirect information on migration they can. During and immediately after the First World War came the Great Migration, and ever since then Negroes have not stopped coming to the urban North. The Great Migration of Negroes after 1915 is the more significant when it is realized that it was much bigger—relative to the size of the respective populations—than the corresponding migration of Southern whites. For the average Negro, living conditions in the North have always been more favorable than in the South.
