Slavery
The South was full of hate prejudice, ignorance and disrespect towards African Americans. Jim Crow laws, prevented African Americans from becoming successful and moving past slavery. Starting in 1900 Africans Americans began leaving the south and traveling by train to Northern cities. As immigrants came to America they faced strong prejudice from white American citizens. At this same time large amounts of immigrant; coming from Europe, Asia and Mexico began coming to the US. Both the immigrants and African Americans were trying to move away from the struggles they faced in the past. Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York began to become more diverse due to the incoming of African Americans or the immigrants into there cities.
Los Angeles became home to African Americans, Japanesese, and Mexicans by 1920. "Los Angeles had a reputation as "a good town for Negroes" during the so-called "Golden Era" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when jobs were available,......
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