Many African Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North.
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The Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, between 1916 and 1970.
African Americans went to Northern cities for better opportunities.
The movement northward of African Americans between 1915 and 1930 was called the Great Migration. The need for labor, the education opportunities, and safety called to the southern blacks to move up north.
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