what did the north represent to African Americans around 1920?

Question

What were their ideas on what the north was like?
What was the north really like?
How were African American's treated

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Answer 1

They felt in the North they wouldn't encounter the same Jim Crow type restrictions they saw in the South. It was their chance to become independent and own land and property, work for themselves or a corporation vs a sharecropping industry.
The North allowed them to work in real jobs, but many areas were still segregated. Separate but equal was still prevalent in the North though not always to the same extent as in the South.