When white and black Southerners moved west and north, it was very common for them to settle in a community composed of their own race. Northern whites also had social differences from Southern whites who may have moved next door to them as most industrial Northern neighborhoods were home to second-generation immigrants of European descent. As Gregory stated, “residential dispersal meant that for most white migrants, the resettlement experience would be an exercise in integration.” (pg.164) As religion began to be based on black empowerment, people began to support the civil rights movement more. They began to create political powers in the North that were not accessible in the South and had a high “rate of electoral activity given the poverty and recent arrival of most of the population.” (p.241) The civil rights era marked a huge turning point for the rights and political involvement of African Americans because they were able to influence the country to make change that would otherwise have left us with a very different