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The Great Migration: From Mississippi to Chicago

Season 15

In the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans moved North.

Hundreds of thousands of black people fled Mississippi for Chicago in the years between the world wars. Neighborhoods and schools were segregated, but the city offered a kind of freedom black Mississippians could only dream about.

AIR DATE 1/20/03

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