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Migration from the Southern United States

From 1915, social injustice, poverty and fear drove half a million African Americans from the South to the North, in what was called The Great Migration. In the North, African Americans had to live in ghettos and still faced segregation, but new economic opportunities were available to them. The release of the film 'The Birth of a Nation' led to increased racism and the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.

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