The Great Migration received a mixed response from white people.
Most of the white people in favor of encouraging African Americans to relocate to metropolitan areas were labor-intensive merchants.
Blacks were charged migration fees by white businesspeople and politicians in response to the South's worsening labor shortage.
African Americans started to carve out a new position for themselves in society during the Great Migration, actively overcoming racial discrimination as well as economic, political, and social obstacles to forge a Black urban culture that would have a significant impact for decades to come.
<h3>How did World War II affect American workers?</h3>
America's response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilization of an idle economy in the history of the world.
During the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 percent, and corporate profits after taxes doubled.
