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What impact did world war 1 have on the great migration?

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Because of World War I, there was a high demand for African American laborers to move North. With white males fighting in the war, employers needed workers. Also, factories making war materiel needed workers.

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It moved over 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the North, Midwest, and West cities.

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