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Understanding the Great Migration
Sherry E. Spector, Parkdale High, Prince George's County Public Schools
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  RS #01 Letter from Mrs. J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association
  RS #02 Letter from Cleveland Gaillard to the Bethlehem Baptist Association
  RS #03 Photograph Depicting African American Man Picketing a Milk Company
  RS #04 Photograph of Picket Line at the Mid-City Realty Company
  RS #05 Photograph of the Perfect Eat Shop
  RS #06 Photograph of Tenement Housing in One of Chicagos Poor African American Neighborhoods
  RS #07 Letter From a Northern Migrant
  RS #08 Letter from a Southerner Wishing to Move North
  RS #09 Minutes from the Committee on Urban Conditions First Meeting
  RS #10 Antagonism between white and Negro workers resulted in race riots
  RS #11 The Negro was the largest source of labor after all others had been exhausted
  RS #12 The migration gained in momentum
  RS #13 Many migrants found poor housing conditions in the North
  RS #14 Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go north and enter northern industry
  RS #15 Another cause for Negroes leaving the South was lynching
  RS #16 Map: 1890 African American Population
  RS #17 Map: 1900 African American Population
  RS #18 Map: 1910 African American Population
  RS #19 Map: 1920 African American Population
  RS #20 Map: 1930 African American Population
  RS #21 Map: 1960 African American Population
  RS #22 Understanding the Great Migration Group Analysis Worksheet
  RS #23 Town Meeting
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