AfricanAmericans migrated North in the first decades of the 20th Century to escape the economic slavery of sharecropping, convict leasing and other forms of Jim Crow segregation and racism. Many came to the coalfields of Appalachia to find opportunity working in the mines.
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Title: King Cotton
Date Created: 1907
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