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Why did so many African Americans migrate during WWI?

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to take advantage of a labor shortage in industrial cities during the First World War.

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It is conservatively estimated that 400,000 African Americans left the South in 1916 through 1918 to take advantage of a labor shortage in industrial cities during the First World War.

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