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by matt_f 2042 days ago
The "great migration" of post-slavery African Americans from around 1916-1970.

Millions left the South under threat of death and worse to escape continuing slavery-like conditions and oppression of the Jim Crow era, radically altering the political, economic, and demographic balance of the nation.

Totally mind blowing, and never got a whiff of mention in my history books growing up beyond "Jim Crow laws were a thing. Then WWII happened"