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Great Migrations: A People on The Move

How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration

Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration but there were even more sinister forces at work: government policies that sought to keep neighborhoods segregated by race – or destroy Black neighborhoods altogether.