This title is from PBS and is quoted. Funny innit how posters think it was free blacks living in the north and presumably a very few free blacks lived and stayed in the South, even during the Civil war. The underground railroad supposedly took slaves away or blacks away since they wanted to be with whites in the north. Now comes a black man explaining history. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-ame...history/free-blacks-lived-in-the-north-right/
Yes if you love trying to mind control, surely it is. So give me ways blacks plan to quit being racists?
It's interesting that there were half a million free Blacks by 1860 (some even by the Revolution almost 100 years previous), and soon after All of them (5 Milllion), yet they still have such a relative lack of success. So that poor achievement/IQ/SAT test results are still blamed on "slavery." Ganted, there was still strong and legal discrimination in the South for another hundred years Gates' article derived from a book by a Jewish author/Ira Berlin in 1974/re-released in 2007. Up until the mid-20th century (perhaps to the 1960s) many signs still read "No Blacks or Jews." +
Frankly, can you think of anything at all that today's Democrats have done to improve the conditions for blacks?
Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South and only a small number of them migrated to the North, where jobs were scarce. 6 million African-Americans' Great Migration out of the rural South to the North occurred between 1916 and 1970, when there were job opportunities for African-Americans because of the loss of 5 million white men who left to serve in the armed forces. Map of Black share of population in the 1900