Why did black Americans migrate to northern cities during World War I?They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion.Southern blacks knew that race relations in the North were idyllic compared with those in the South.The federal government had used the wartime emergency as an opportunity to end southern sharecropping.They knew of the northern race riots and decided to move north to help their brothers.They had been told that northern agriculture was more prosperous than southern agriculture.

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