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tarting around 1910, African-Americans left the South in droves as part of what became known as the Great Migration. Many historians have
divided this migration into two distinct periods. One from 1910 to 1930 when approximately 1.6 million Blacks left mostly rural areas and
migrated to northern industrial cities.
Friends Dining-out in East Point, GA.
BY MICHAEL BENNETT
Photo Credit: East Point CVB
