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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

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The Black Lives in the South and West

By the turn of the century Jim Crow was in full force and post-reconstruction blacks had been relegated in the south mostly to subsistence farming. The railroads had been built by then and word began to trickle down to some southern blacks that their promised land might be just a short train ride to the north. Between 1915 and 1960 some six to seven million black Americans migrated out of the rural south to the big cities in the north and west. It's hard to really even imagine it today but Baltimore, Philly, Brooklyn, Newark, Detroit, St Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland. Even the Ku Klux Klan had shifted its focus.

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