THE GREAT BLACK MIGRATION

From the earliest U.S. population statistics in 1780 until 1910, more than 90% of the African American population lived in the American South,[ making up the majority of the population in three Southern states, viz. Louisiana (until about 1890[9]), South Carolina (until the 1920s[10]), and Mississippi (until the 1930s[11]). But by the end of the Great Migration, just over half of the African-American population lived in the South, while a little less than half lived in the North and West.