Number 02: The World War had caused a great shortage in Northern industry and also citizens of foreign countries were returning home.

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Number 04: The Negro was the largest source of labor to be found after all others had been exhausted.

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Number 06: And the migrants kept coming.

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Number 08: They did not always leave because they were promised work in the North. Many of them left because of Southern conditions, one of them being great floods that ruined the crops.

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Number 10: They were very poor.

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Number 12: The railroad stations were at times so overpacked with people leaving that special guards had to be called to keep order.

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Number 14: Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts.

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Number 16: Although the Negro was used to lynching, he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occured.

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Number 18: The migration gained in momentum.

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Number 20: In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement.

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Number 22: Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night...

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Number 24: Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes.

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Number 26: And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement.

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Number 28: The labor agent who had been sent south by northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties.

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Number 30: In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not.

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Number 32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North.

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Number 34: The Negro press was also influential in urging the people to leave the South.

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Number 36: In Chicago and other cities they labored in the steel mills

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Number 38: They also worked in large numbers on the railroad.

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Number 40: The migrants arrived in great numbers.

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Number 42: Sometimes the [labor] agents disguised themselves to avoid arrest, but the migrants were often taken from railroad stations and jailed until the trains departed

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Number 44: Living conditions in the North were better.

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Number 46: Industries attempted to board their labor in quarters that were oftentimes very unhealthy. Labor camps were numerous.

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Number 48: Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem.

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