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What were the causes and effects of the Great Migration?

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Answer:

The second significant cause of the Great Migration was the desire of black Southerners to escape segregation, known euphemistically as Jim Crow.

Step-by-step explanation:

Rural African American Southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the North.

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