How Great Migration Exposed Racial Division Flashcards

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American Dream?

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Better opportunities
Freedom from violence and harassment

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What exposed

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No equal opportunity
No equal resources
Huge discrimination

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No equal opportunity

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Last to get hired, first to get fired. Many ppl didn’t want to work w black ppl bc of huge discrimination giving them the least desirable jobs

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No equal resources

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Restaurant refusing to serve
Banks refusing to give loans
Utilise were separated, cemetery, beaches, parks, bathrooms

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Housing

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The biggest economic division that still plagued the nation

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How was housing not fair?

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Segregated white neighborhoods terrorizing and mobbing any blacks that tried to move in
Ex: housing movement, creating organizations that would vandalize their homes and property at night to try to scare them away
Realtors refused to show them houses in those areas and some wouldn’t help them at all

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Where could blacks go?

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The only place they could go was urban areas and cities. Living in slums

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What now

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Racial wars caused huge tension and division that is still seen today. Many cities look different and still segregated

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