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History Of The Great Migration

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The Great Migration is one of the most useful trips the blacks have made. The Great Migration was a lot of colored people making a trip to the north to find a better environment to live in other than the south because they did not like it at all. They’re life there was a lot better than as it was in the south. It wasn’t as segregated as the south, they had a lot better life there in the south. They had much more freedom before in the south but in the north they colored could vote. When they moved to the north there was this thing called Redlining. It was the noting of black neighborhoods and where and who they could give money loans to. The NAACP was an organization made in 1909. It was formed in a state called New York. The first president

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