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The STORY behind the SONG The Great Migration Between 1915 and 1970, six million African Americans left their homes in the South and moved to states in the North and West. This massive movement of black citizens from one part of the United States to another is known as the Great Migration. Social conditions in the South provided many migrants with a strong incentive to leave: following Reconstruction, state legislatures throughout the South had passed laws mandating the separation of the races in every area of social life (marriage, housing, education, transportation, healthcare, recreation, and so on). Through these laws (known as Jim Crow) and social custom, southern states had systematically developed a severe racial caste system. youtu.be/aGX3bWHSHt0
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:04:11 +0000

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