Began during WWI, continued through 1920s, slowed during 1930s Depression, exploded in the post WWII years.
The movement of African-Americans from the rural south to the industrial, urban North.
By 1960 50% of African Americans lived in Northern cities.
Pull: industrial jobs
Push: southern segregation, violence & disappearance of sharecropping
5 million African Americans moved north b/tween 1940-1960
Racial discrimination no longer seen as just a
southern issue- became a national problem.
Housing in North= more segregated than south.
Detroit= mostly black city, Dearborn suburb= almost entirely white
New freedoms & opportunities: voting, jobs
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