Jackie Robinson’s integration into baseball caused an economic vacuum that the African-American community is still trying to recover from. The case is so wide ranging one only need to look at one neighborhood to see all of the effects, the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s south side.
Between 1910 and 1930 the black populations in the north rose about 20% on average. This was called “the great migration” in which African Americans ventured north to find work. Work in the south was in short supply because of a boll weevil infestation in the cotton crops. Jobs were to be had in the factories and steel mills of the north because a need of supplies for the mounting World War I. Railroad companies were so desperate for help that they paid African Americans' travel expenses to the North. After the war began the migration slowed because of men joining the armed forces but it would pick back up after the War. The Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper, was a......
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