Great Migration - Domestic Refugees (jan 1, 1910 – jan 1, 1970)

Description:

over 1.5 mil Black Americans are pushed away from the South to the North as a result of:
> domestic terrorism (the Klan)
> the Jim Crow Laws
> Sharecropping (economic "agreements" after the 13th Amendment, basically slavery with another name)

Most common places:

Chicago
Detroit
Pittsburgh
New York
Los Angeles

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Will life be better in the North?
= no, segregation and racism in the North, poverty in factories

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