History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1677 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Second Great Migration
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The idea
Between nineteen forty and nineteen fifty some one and a half million Black southerners left the Jim Crow South for the North, the Yawp records.
In practice
Families boarding trains north for work in industrial cities.
Where people slip
The Yawp calls it the largest number of any decade since the Great Migration of unit four began, and an indirect protest against racism and violence.
Your place on the trail
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