The
accepted end of the Second Great Migration is considered to have occurred
during the early 1970's when opportunities, after of decades of civil rights
work forced new openings in the south, attracted some African-Americans
back to the region (Mathieu, 2009). The impact of the periods of
migration are evident in many cultural, social, and economic aspects of our
society today. Was the end result of these experience always for the
better, and did they provide all those who sought it the promise land they had
expected? For some, if even temporarily, the answer was “yes”. For
others, the effects were not realized for many years. Regardless of the
outcome for the individual, the period of migrations, as a whole, forced
Americans to reassess race relations (social, political, economic), and helped
expedite the civil rights movement that would, over time, provided a level of
equality that had been promised more than 100 years earlier.