The Great Migration: An American Odyssey
Автор: Katie Sheeran (Katie)
Загружено: 2016-05-06
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Learn more about the Great Migration at http://goinnorth.org
World War I created a boom in war industries in the North. Philadelphia, like other northern cities found itself in want of workers, a problem that only became more severe when the United States entered the war. In 1916, the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to remedy the problem by offering free transportation north to African Americans in the South who were willing to work on the railroad. They provided free transportation to over 12,000 southern Blacks before the program ended in 1918. They represent only a fraction of the millions of African Americans who came north during the Great Migration. Of those millions, tens of thousands came to Philadelphia by boat and by train. The journeys these people embarked on defined their lives, and their presence in Philadelphia changed the city forever.
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