The Great Migration < The Quest for Political Power Legacies Percent of African Americans in Total Population: by States: 1920Percentage of African Americans in the Total Population: 1910The Great Migration: 1900-1929Number and Percent of African Americans in the United States Living in Urban and Rural Communities: 1890-1930Principal States of Origin of the Migrants: 1910-1930African American Population in Selected Cities: 1900-1920The Great Blues Migration Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division, Monroe N. Work, Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922, Tuskegee Institute, Ala: Negro Year Book Pub. Co., 1922 Percent of African Americans in Total Population: by States: 1920Percentage of African Americans in the Total Population: 1910The Great Migration: 1900-1929Number and Percent of African Americans in the United States Living in Urban and Rural Communities: 1890-1930Principal States of Origin of the Migrants: 1910-1930African American Population in Selected Cities: 1900-1920The Great Blues Migration