... African-Americans from the South to the increasingly urbanized North and West. This migration was steady through the 1920s and even during the Great Depression did not slow dramatically. But the decade of the 1940's saw the largest black migration from the South, as wartime production in industrial areas demanded labor. This would be the first time white and black workers would be working side by side. During this decade, nearly 1 million black Americans made the move from South ... to North. By 1950, for the first time, a third of all black Americans lived outside the South. The rise o...

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