March 3, 2010

Do you plan to stay in

Philadelphia after you
finish your education?
Why might you move?
Why might you stay? Is
there anywhere else
that you might want to
live if you could?
 Homework:
 Project – due Friday
 “What project?”
way to admit you
don’t pay attention
 If you need an
extension, talk to
me BEFORE FRIDAY
or you will not get
an extension
 Terms
 Immigration  Emigration
 People arriving in a new  People leaving their
place or country place or country of
 Usually only used for origin
people who arrive from  Usually only used for
a place where the
culture is very different
people who leave a
from where they lived place where the
before culture is very
different from where
they lived before
 African American
Migration
 From the South to the
North and West
 Some could not leave
because they owed money
 Some chose not to leave
 Some chose to leave
 Why did they make the
decisions they did?
 Push Factors
 Racist laws
(Jim Crow)
 Lynchings

 Poor
education
 The Ku Klux
Klan
Pull Factors
 The chance to
own land
 The chance to
set up their own
towns to make
their own laws
 The chance to
get away from
Jim Crow
 Nicodemus, Kansas
 A town populated by
Exodusters
 The last remaining All
Black town founded by
the Exodusters
 A farming town
 Still a tourist attraction
Jenny Smith Fletcher
 First postmistress
in Nicodemus
 First school teacher
in Nicodemus
 Also one of the
original charter
members of the
A.M.E. Church
 Z.T. Fletcher
 Husband of Jenny
Smith Fletcher
 First postmaster
 Secretary of the
Colony
 The first entrepreneur
in Nicodemus
 Established the St.
Francis Hotel in 1880