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Hopeless conditions under the South's segregationist "Jim Crow" laws drove many African Americans north. The exodus began in the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth; an estimated five million black people migrated between 1940 and 1970. In the decade after 1940, Chicago's black population climbed from 277,731 to 492,265.  
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