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African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
Only able to buy houses in certain areas,
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved north to large cities due to increased oppression in the South, greater accessibility to education, and an increase in job opportunities following WWI. The most popular destination was New York's City's upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where the increase in the population of African Americans led to the Harlem Renaissance.
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African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
the african americans were still in slavery during the civil war
Only able to buy houses in certain areas,
African- Americans that lived in cities were crammed into tiny apartments called Kitchenettes. Otherwise they lived in substandard housing, as in dirt floored shacks, no windows or screens, and no furniture, most did not even have plumbing.
There are more than 350,000 African Americans!
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved north to large cities due to increased oppression in the South, greater accessibility to education, and an increase in job opportunities following WWI. The most popular destination was New York's City's upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where the increase in the population of African Americans led to the Harlem Renaissance.
Most African Americans joined the British, because the British offered them freedom.
Early unions excluded African Americans during the 1800s. African Americans started their own unions.
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some African Americans fought during the revolutionary war so the could get freedom from there British owner
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.