THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the decade between 1910 and 1920, the Black population of major Northern cities grew by large percentages, including New York City (66 percent), Chicago (148 percent), Philadelphia (500 percent) and Detroit (611 percent).
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1910 and 1930, the African-American population increased by about 40% in Northern states as a result of the migration, mostly in the major cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Migration was a period between 1910 and 1940 of rapid population shift when hundreds of thousands of southern African Americans resettled in the North hoping to find better employment, housing, and education for their children, and less racial discrimination.