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Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center
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By Frick Art & Historical Center
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During the Great Migration of 1916-1940 over two million African Americans left the American South seeking a greater quality of life, with the Steel City a major destination.

Men and women packed up what they could fit in a suitcase or the trunk of a car and left behind their homes and families in search of better opportunities in the budding industries of the North and Midwest. They were escaping discriminatory laws and racial violence.

Purchasing a car was one of the first things African ...

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