<P> After moving from the racist pressures of the south to the northern states, African Americans were inspired to different kinds of creativity . The Great Migration resulted in the Harlem Renaissance, which was also fired by immigrants from the Caribbean . In her Pulitzer Prize--winning book The Warmth of Other Suns, journalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses the migration of "six million black Southerners (moving) out of the terror of Jim Crow to an uncertain existence in the North and Midwest ." </P> <P> The struggle of African - American migrants to adapt to Northern cities was the subject of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series of paintings, created when he was a young man in New York . Exhibited in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art, Lawrence's Series attracted wide attention; he was quickly perceived as one of the most important African - American artists of the time . </P> <P> The Great Migration had effects on music as well as other cultural subjects . Many blues singers migrated from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago to escape racial discrimination . Muddy Waters, Chester Burnett, and Buddy Guy are among the most well - known blues artists who migrated to Chicago . Great Delta - born pianist Eddie Boyd told Living Blues magazine, "I thought of coming to Chicago where I could get away from some of that racism and where I would have an opportunity to, well, do something with my talent...It wasn't peaches and cream (in Chicago), man, but it was a hell of a lot better than down there where I was born ." </P> <P> The Great Migration drained off much of the rural black population of the South, and for a time, froze or reduced African - American population growth in parts of the region . In a number of states, there were decades of black population decline, especially across the Deep South "black belt" where cotton had been king . The migration changed the demographics of the South . In 1910, African Americans constituted the majority of the population of South Carolina and Mississippi, and more than 40 percent in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas; by 1970, only in Mississippi did the African - American population constitute more than 30 percent of the state's total . "The disappearance of the' black belt' was one of the striking effects" of the Great Migration, James Gregory wrote . </P>

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