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Chapter 8. Migration
national opinion about how to treat Negroes.^^ Still others, and to this
group belong most Negro writers, have their attention fixed on the rise
in education, general culture, and political power of the Negro people, and
believe that the northward migration will improve the Negroes position
in both North and South.^®
We shall not take part in this dispute, except to emphasize three things:
first, that there is probably some truth in the first two statements j
second,
that, independent of this, migration to the North means a tremendous
amelioration of the Negro’s status in America; but, third, that the ^‘solu-
tion” of the Negro problem—even taken in a relativistic sense of develop-
ing a gradual but steady improvement of race relations—is much too
complicated to be solved by migration. Governmental intervention is rising,
and this trend means that the change of race relations is no longer deter-
mined by such “natural” developments as migration but by a complex of
intentional policies affecting not only migration but all other spheres of
the problem.
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