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Why did so many Africa Americans go north?

User Rui Lima
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The rapid mobilization of resources and weapons during World War II prompted many African Americans to migrate to Northern and Western cities in search of jobs in the booming munitions industry. ( world war II)

The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. ( world war I)

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they went north to find land

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They went north because north lead to much more land than the south which was very cold and ended at one point

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