Impact of the Great Migration
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Racial hostility
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Many black Americans were confined to black ghettos with higher rates of crime, infant mortality, poverty, overcrowding and unemployment. The influx of black migrants had led to racial tensions and whites responded by trying to segregate the races - Boston passed its first segregation residential law in 1911, and other states followed suit. Race riots occurred in the north such as in Chicago in 1919.
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