What was the 'Great Migration' during the World War I era?
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Correct answer: The movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities
The war created a labor shortage in Northern factories while Southern agriculture faced hardships. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans moved North for better jobs and to escape Jim Crow laws.
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