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title: "What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?"  
description: "What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-05-30  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43450/what-did-african-americans-seek-to-escape-when-they-moved-to-the-north-in-the-1920-s  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's? 

What did [African Americans](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42788/during-world-war-i-how-did-the-lives-of-african-americans-in-the-military-reflect-the-lives-of-african-americans-at-home) seek to [escape](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/98969/jungle-run-temple-escape-is-better-than-temple-run) when they moved to the North in the 1920's?


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