The thousands of African Americans who migrated away from growing racism and oppression in the southern states to settle on the plains in the late 1870s were called

The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, 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 1916 and 1970.

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