Between 1910 and 1920 million of blacks moved from the south to the north in search of jobs in what became known as the

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban .

Contributing factors  leading  to the harlem renaissance were the great migration of african americans to northern cities, which concentratedambitious  people in places where they could encourage each  other, and the first world war, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.