Most people tend to remain near where their ancestors lived. Since a very large number of African Americans descend from Africans imported to the South to work as slaves, there are still large numbers of African Americans in the South.
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African Americans
They have a common mother, Britain. They speak a common language, English. They have large numbers of recent immigrants.
During the war. For many African Americans, the war offered an opportunity to get out of the cycle of crushing rural poverty. Blacks joined the military in large numbers, escaping a decade of Depression and tenant farming in the South and Midwest. Yet, like the rest of America in the 1940s, the armed forces were segregated.
The back to Africa movement was not success of a financial venture for African American migrating back to the land of the ancestors in a settlement in Liberia. The movements finical backing was laced with fraud and its leader convicted and sent to prison. The movement failed on a large scale but some of its teaching were carried on my many African Americans.
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