9. They were given the hardest and
lowest paying jobs in the cities.
10. They were forced to live in overcrowded
apartments in the poorest sections of town.
11. This article from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania paper says that the black
people were bringing the South’s “race problem” with them as they
moved into her city.
12. Factories in the north were having trouble finding enough
cheap’ workers and actively advertised in the southern newspapers for
blacks to come north to work in the factories. This made white workers
who were on strike for better wages and conditions very angry with
many blacks who moved north to “take their jobs”.
13. KKK parade in Ohio-1923. The largest KKK
group in the U.S. was in Ohio in the 1920s.
14. Men like W.E.B. Dubois began to speak out
in newspapers and magazines about the
bad treatment of black people.
15. W.E.B. Dubois started this
organization/magazine that is still
around today…
http://www.naacp.org/content/main
16. Booker T. Washington believed in better education
for black folks and began a black university right
here in Alabama-Tuskegee Institute
17. Here is the website for this
University here in Alabama…
• http://www.tuskegee.edu/
