legal campaign of subjugation, called Jim Crow, plus targeted law enforcement, lack of education resources, and limited economic opportunity, resulted in “the Great Migration.” Starting in the first decade of the twentieth century, more than a million African Americans left the racial violence and poverty of the South for the industrial cities of the North and West. In 1900, Georgia’s Black population was over 47 percent of the total. By 1970, the figure had dropped to just over 25 percent.
