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conditions, North and South. Fueled by the dream of better life, southern Blacks migrated North in record numbers between 1890 and 1920 and began to establish political power which helped to ease racial restrictions north of Mason-Dixon Line.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded by Blacks and whites in 1909, began a legal campaign against racism's restrictions on Blacks. The NAACP won some victories; but the white South resisted, and total separation of the races in the South continued.

The North offered no real escape from racism - poverty, unequal education, and discrimination flourished there as well. But those southern Blacks who traveled north found an escape from permanent enslavement by farming white-owned land for little or no pay. In the North, they found improved public education and access to jobs far superior to those they had left behind.

Meanwhile, brutal retaliation met anyone in the South who threatened to break the color line. More and more, the rigid walls of segregation were confined to the southern states alone.

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conditions, North and South. Fueled by the dream of better life, southern Blacks migrated North in record numbers between 1890 and 1920 and began to establish political power which heped to ease racial restrictions north of Mason-Dixon Line.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), founded by Blacks and whites in 1909, began a legal campaign against racism's restrictions on Blacks. The NAACP won some victories; but the white South resisted, and total separation of the races in the South continued.

The North offered no real escape from racism - poverty, unequal education, and discrimination flourished there as well. But those southern Blacks who traveled north found an escape from permanent enslavement by farming white-owned land for little or no pay. In the North, they found improved public education and access to jobs far superior to those they had left behind.

Meanwhile, brutal retaliation met anyone in the South who threatened to break the color line. More and more, the rigid walls of segregation were confined to the southern states alone.