They did not always leave because they were promised work in the North. Many of them left because of Southern conditions, one of them being great floods that ruined the crops, and therefore they were unable to make a living where they were
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Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem....
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Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes
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They were very poor
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One of the main forms of social and recreational activities in which the migrants indulged occurred in the church
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And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement
