"Sir... Doubtless you have learned of the great exodus our people to the north and west from this and other states. I wish to say that we are forced to go when one thinks of a grown man wages is
only fifty to seventy cents per day for all grades of work. He is compelled to go where there is better
wages and sociable conditions, believe me. When I say that (at) many places here in this state the
only thing the black man gets is a peck of meal and from three to four lbs. of bacon per week, and he
is treated as a slave.
-From Emmett J. Scott, ed. "Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918," Journal of Negro History 4,
1919
I
The author's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the
early twentieth century?
Choose 1
the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
the flood of emigration from Africa and Southern Europe to the United States
the rise in anti-black sentiment and the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan
D
the massive migration of African Americans from the South to the North