they had no choice but to integrate the society they lived in, in many cases instead of going through with that and living through that kind of change, a lot of them just decided to quit that society. they gave up public pools and public schools and in some cases movie theaters. they gave up whole cities and moved away. they called it white flight. right? the census from 1960, for instance, records a jackson, mississippi, that was majority white. almost 2-1. by 1990, jackson's population had made the turn toward getting smaller and it was getting much blacker. by 2010, jackson, mississippi, had become the second most african-american city in the nation. white people in the previously legally segregated south, and really across the nation, abandoned places rather than see them change. but white people were not the only ones who moved away. from roughly the first world war through the 1970s, our country experienced what they call theq great migration. that's a term that refers specifically in this country to a great migration of people