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Jim Crow segregation laws, lynchings, poll taxes, and a culture built upon tenets of white superiority did not make for a good life in the south for African-Americans. From 1915 to 1930 thousands migrated up North in search of better living and working conditions. Northern factories offered work, but in return families left their relatives and rural life behind, exchanging it for an unfamiliar urban environment that had its own challenges. Leading to the Harlem Renaissance, the popularity of jazz, and other cultural changes, The Great Migration not only changed life for the people who moved, but for all of America. 40 pages, indexed, hardcover with dust jacket. Part of the Crossroads America series from National Geographic.
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