In what is known as The Great Migration, large numbers of African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities, beginning in the early twentieth century. What motivated this large-scale movement?
job openings due to industrial growth in northern cities
Answer:
Poverty that resulted from years of discrimination.
Explanation:
The Kerner Commission was a Presidential commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. The commission drew a report on the riots that caused tension in the United States in the summers of 1967.
While the riots were still going on in Detroit, Michigan, President assigned a commission to find the causes that led to these riots. The cause addressed in the report was the poor neighbourhood conditions of black Americans and limited economic conditions resulted from years of discrimination.
Therefore, the statement that "poverty that resulted from years of
discrimination" is the correct answer.
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