White planters would lament about the Exodus of coloreds. After Jim Crow laws closed in on blacks in the 1890s, the trickle of blacks migrating to the North became a stream of blacks who settled in relative anonymity in the colored quarters of primarily northeastern cities, such as Harlem in New York and in north Philadelphia. During the first decade of the Twentieth century, some 194,000 blacks left the border and coastal states. The masses did not pour out of the South until they had something to go to. Some 555,00 colored people left the South during the decade of the First World War – more than all the colored people who left in the five decades after the Emancipation Proclamation. If there was a single precipitating event that set off the Great Migration, it was World War I. The Great Migration occurred over 6 decades (1915-1970), with 6 million blacks leaving the South. Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the first African American to win for individual reporting. Notes on Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Warmth of Other Suns.
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