Blackfamily
I was just responding to what Oakasfan said about police violence against blacks in the 1950’s which he impied resulted in high black crime rates. My question and response was that those times of unrest occurred over 60 years ago and was wiondering why the rate of violence is so high despite LA and Chicago being ran by liberals who obviously dont oppress minorities. Its a valid question.

As to the topic at hand regarding migration from the south. Many southern blacks worked on farms and due to segregation moved to northern cities or out west to CA to make better lives for themselves which caused difficulty for them due to many blacks ( at that time) not having skills to find employment in more urban settings.
Even in the south, in the 1960’s, many farming jobs normally done by people were being replaced by machines.