NEGROES: Migration

The Federal Council of Churches on March 9 published the report of a commission which investigated Negro migration in this country. No figures are available on the extent of the movement of Negroes to the North. Reports from Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia show, however, that more than the usual number of Negroes are arriving from the South. The commission predicts from present indications that this migration will increase during the Spring and Summer.

In contrast with this movement, which has become definitely established ever since the war, is a movement of southern Negroes...

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