Kristine Cummings

What Has Led To An Increase Of African Americans In The City Of Philadelphia?

With the onset of World War I and the ban on European immigration, black Southerners migrated to the North in record numbers, taking advantage of labor shortages in Northern industrial plants. By 1920, Philadelphia’s black population had grown to 134,220, a fifty percent increase from ten years earlier. Why did African Americans go to Philadelphia? …

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