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March, 1987, Vol. 110, No. 3

The Great Migration
of Afro-Americans, 1915-40

Spencer R. Crew
Historian, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and curator of the exhibition

Between the World Wars, more than 1 million black Americans left the South to seek opportunity and fuller citizenship in the North.

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