Negro labor, the great black section of America's casual worker army of ten million, is migrating to the North. If a report issued by the Department of Agriculture is correct, the exodus of Negroes northward almost rivals the phenomenal movement of 1915-16. Our last census revealed an increase for the decade of 400,000 in the number of Southern-born Negroes living in the North. The best authorities estimate that 250,000 went North in 1915-16. It was a great silent movement, without leadership, or even self-consciousness, which caught at the South like an...
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