History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0462 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pull: Wages and Rights
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The idea
The North and Midwest offered wage work, the chance to vote, and schooling that the rural South denied African Americans.
In practice
More than eighty percent of Black men in the northern cities working in steel, mining, construction and meatpacking.
Where people slip
Those jobs paid more than southern farm labour. Push and pull together explain the migration.
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