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1 The Advent of Jazz, The dawn of the 20th Century
 A scene from the Great Migration: “A Negro Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the Rural South,” c. 1922. 
A scene from the Great Migration: “A Negro Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the Rural South,” c. 1922. Courtesy of the Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

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