How did the Great Migration affect life for African Americans in many industrial cities?
African Americans were welcomed in the cities, where there was a surplus of wartime factory workers.
The African American population grew quickly, leading to discrimination and race riots in some cities.
Most African Americans, facing harsh conditions and unemployment, left the cities and returned to the South.
Few African Americans found jobs in the cities due to the increase of women workers and immigrant workers.
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The African Americans were welcomed in cities, where there was a surplus of wartime factory workers
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The Great Migration was the extensive dispersal of African Americans through rural areas in southern to metropolitan northern cities and the West throughout most of the twentieth century in the United States. The number of African Americans who resided in the Southern states around the start of the 20th century. Approximately six million black Southerners emigrated to metropolitan regions in the North and West during both 1916 and 1970, throughout most of the Great Migration.
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