Northern urbanites imposed segregationist ideas on arriving southern Black migrants.

Evidence

When migrants reached northern cities, they faced the same discrimination they thought they had left behind, and they heard the same racist ideas. The Black and White natives of northern cities looked down on the migrants and their different (though equal) southern or rural cultural ways as culturally backward. They looked at their families as dysfunctional. And they called these migrants, who had moved hundreds of miles seeking work and a better life, lazy. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 808

Categorization

• XREF: Northerners, including Black northerners, absorbing segregationist ideas about ‘culturally backward’ migrants foreshadows later Black-on-Black respectability politics and assimilationist framings. — connects to: Black northern migration met epidemic white urban violence through 1919 — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 865