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African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
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The Red Summer occurred due to competition for jobs between whites and African Americans after World War I. It was a violent reaction to the Northern migration of African Americans from the South.
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During the Great Migration, African Americans moved north to large cities due to increased oppression in the South, greater accessibility to education, and an increase in job opportunities following WWI. The most popular destination was New York's City's upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, where the increase in the population of African Americans led to the Harlem Renaissance.