Especially for most southern African-Americans who had suffered from years of enslavement, hard labor and oppression, this decade was a high point in history. In what became known as the Great Migration, Blacks poured off the farms in search of employment opportunities created by World War I. During this time the focus of many black southerners’ attention was directed towards the urban areas. Between 1915 and 1920 as many as one million African-Americans moved to northern cities. Nearly another million joined them in the decade that followed. The urban industrial centers were

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