London has air quality problems which is linked to thousands of premature deaths each year, but also to a range of illnesses such as asthma and heart disease. Children growing up in areas with high levels of air pollution may develop stunted lungs.
Many laborer's died, which devastated families through lost means of survival and caused personal suffering; landowners who used laborer's as tenant farmers were also affected.
"The Great Migration<span> was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970."</span>