In the years between 1916 and 1918, an estimated half-million African Americans moved to the North to fill the labor shortage in industrial cities caused by WWI. Most migrating African Americans arrived in big Northern cities to find
A) acceptance and equality.
B) more poverty and segregation.
C) integration and economic independence.
D) jobs for which they were not trained.

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While African Americans hoped for better economic opportunities in the North, they often found themselves living in segregated neighborhoods and facing discrimination in housing and employment. This led to more poverty and segregation, rather than acceptance and equality or integration and economic independence. Many also had to take lower-paying jobs than their white counterparts, indicating that they may have been taking jobs for which they were overqualified.

In the Years Between 1916 and 1918, an Estimated Half-Million