The great migration of the Harlem Renaissance

The great migration of the Harlem Renaissance happed after World War I. Blacks of the south were moving to the north and west to get away from the white domination of the south to a somewhat more accepting north. They were also moving from farms in the south to the factories of the north. The great migration is the trigger for the Harlem
Renaissances. The moves made way for society to grow and experience a type of society that had been superset by the white society of the south.

Cool facts about the great migration of the Harlem Renaissance.
1.5 million Southern blacks moved to cities. During the 1910s and 1920s, Chicago's black population grew by 148 percent; Cleveland's by 307 percent; Detroit's by 611 percent. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=443