"In conclusion, minorities, especially African Americans, moved from the South to North for many reasons to improve economically, educationally and the like: due to slavery; during World Wars I and II; due to discrimination, segregation, injustice, and killings by southern whites. 1915-1950: the boll weevil and a series of bad cotton crop years; droughts affected tobacco, peanuts and other crops fo" . . . . .