The war had an interesting and long-lasting impact upon segregated North Carolina. It created an opportunity for African Americans to leave the state and find better jobs in northern cities. In the North, black Tar Heels could do things denied them in their native state, like vote and sit down in the same restaurants that whites used. So many blacks from across the South left that their action became known as the Great Migration. They moved principally to Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. By the end of the war, more than 25,000 lived in Manhattan, most of them in the growing African American community of Harlem. So many had gone to Philadelphia by the 1920s that the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company set up an office in west Philadelphia.


What were the primary reasons African Americans began to move to the North? Check all that apply.


to exercise their civil rights

to serve in the US military

to escape legal segregation

to find better jobs

to live in a different climate
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