History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1087 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Wartime Migration
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The idea
Nearly three hundred fifty thousand African Americans moved north between nineteen ten and nineteen twenty, into steel, mining, shipbuilding and automobile work.
In practice
Black women in manufacturing rising from seventy thousand in nineteen ten to more than one hundred thousand.
Where people slip
The Yawp says the migration sparked conflict as White northerners fought to reclaim jobs and neighbourhoods.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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