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The Great Migration began about 1910 and only began to slow and reverse itself in the 1970s and 1980s. Some historians have described this demographic phenomenon as the shifting of the Black Belt from the South to the North. In large numbers, African-Americans abandoned the South for economic, political, and social reasons. The North represented to the South's blacks a promised land

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