In what is known as The Great Migration, large numbers of African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities, beginning in the early twentieth century. What motivated this large-scale movement?

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6 January, 02:29

In what is known as The Great Migration, large numbers of African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities, beginning in the early twentieth century. What motivated this large-scale movement?

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Gary Cobb · Answer 1

African Americans left their low paying jobs as agricultural laborers and domestic servants in the south to work in the high paying jobs in meatpacking, shipyards, and steel mills they found in the north.

A second reason was to escape the segregation they experienced in the south.