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History: Black Settlement Houses of New York
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New York Beacon, The
08-14-1996
History: Black Settlement Houses of New York.
By Floris Barnett Cash
Blacks began migrating from the south in the 1880s and the movement gained momentum in the 1920s. Between 1880 and 1910 an average of 6,500 Blacks left the South for employment in northern cities each year. Many of these were women.
In the spring of 1898, Victoria Earle Mathews, the Superintendent of the White Rose Mission, received a letter fr...
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