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Black Flight: Lethal Violence and the Great Migration, 1900–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Stewart E. Tolnay and
E. M. Beck
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After decades of relative residential stability, southern blacks began migrating in striking numbers following the turn of the twentieth century. Reconstruction and Redemption saw a fair amount of short-distance movement as black tenant farmers exchanged one landlord for another in search of favorable financial arrangements. Some blacks moved across state lines, generally toward the Southwest, in pursuit of King Cotton and the livelihood it promised. However, these population movements pale in comparison with the massive migration of southern blacks during the first half of this century.

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Social Science History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Fall 1990, pp. 347 - 370
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1990 

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