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| The Late Migration |
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| Tens of thousands of African Americans came to Milwaukee in the years following World War Two. The move was called the "late migration" because it came a generation after a similar influx into other Midwestern cities like Chicago and Detroit. |
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| African Americans were drawn to Milwaukee by the prospect of good-paying factory jobs, and by the vibrant economic and social life that accompanied those jobs. |
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| Then the bottom dropped out of Milwaukee's manufacturing economy, with devastating consequences. |
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Learn more:
- Bronzeville: Milwaukee's original African American community
- No Love: Voices from an inner-city neighborhood
- In Deep: The world as it looks from 21st and Hopkins
- Neu Life: An after-school program for at-risk kids
- Khalil: More about web site co-producer Khalil Coleman
- Now What? Ideas for improving today's inner-city labor market
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