Thought I would like |"Came to America to go |
"Traveling and | New York." | to school." (From S. |
stopped." | | Hampton, Bermuda.) |
|"Thought I'd like New | |
"Split the difference | York." | |
of time." | |"To learn |
|"Wanted to see the | architecture." |
"Felt like traveling." | place." | |
| |"To visit friends; got |
"Had a roaming |"To see the place and | married." |
mind--came here from | be with sister." | |
Chicago." | |"To see and learn and |
|"To see the city; | improve my ability." |
"Felt like traveling." | friend wrote me of | |
| sights of the great | |
| city." | |
| | |
|"Heard talk of | |
| enjoyable life | |
| here." | |
| | |
|"Came here from | |
| Cincinnati; had read | |
| a great deal of New | |
| York City and wanted | |
| to see it." | |
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Another individual cause operates especially upon the more able and
intelligent classes and sends them to Northern cities. The restriction
by "Jim Crow" legislation and by custom of the rights and privileges
of persons of color in Southern communities leads some of them to
migrate North. They long for a larger liberty for themselves and
particularly for their children, which the hard conditions of Southern
communities do not give. They come North to gain this and to escape
the proscriptions.[15] They settle in