Question

(QUICK PLZ!!!) How did the Great Depression affect the Great Migration?

Answer 1

Thousands of city-dwellers fled the jobless cities and moved to the country looking for work.As relief efforts floundered, many state and local officials threw up barriers to migration, making it difficult for newcomers to receive relief or find work.

Answer 2

During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of African-American sharecroppers who fell into debt joined the Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North. According to Greenberg, by 1940 1.75 million African Americans had moved from the South to cities in the North and West.

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