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CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million Black people moved to the North and West of the United States, driven to escape the racial violence and oppression of the Jim Crow South.

Yet, migrant entrepreneurs facilitated the migration to the city and transformed the landscape of Detroit. In 1925, the city’s Black population was 85,000. That blossomed to 300,000 by 1950.

#2: The Great Depression began in 1929, overlapping with the Great Migration by one year, and ended in 1939. Main cities: Most migrants went to northern cities, including Chicago, Detroit and ...