jan 1, 1916 - 1916: The Great Migration
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The movements hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the industrial centers of the Northeast and the Midwest that were portrayed as the ¨promised lands¨ by industrial labor recruiters (needed new labor because of those that went to war). Blacks and Mexicans not always welcomed, and racial riots and tensions rose throughout Northern cities
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