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Why was the racial unrest in northern cities after wwi?

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Why was the racial unrest in northern cities after wwi?


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Many African Americans were given jobs during the war so when the returning soldiers came home at the end of the war only to find that African Americans had taken over their jobs, it created racial tensions between them. 
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