-1900-1930: rapid urbanisation with population growth of 0.3 to 1.5 million approximately. Between these years, migrants came from all over the US, in particualr the southern states where blacks came for better employment oppurtunities - 'The Great Migration'.
-1903, the founding of the Ford company prompted this migration.
-1908 - General Motors also prompted this migration.
-1925, Chrysler as well.
-In 1913, Ford pioneered its assembly-line production.
-By the mid-twentieth century, the "Big Three" auto firms (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) were all based in metropolitan Detroit. This meant that 1 in every 6 working Americans was employed by the automobile industry. Workers for the automobile industry came from all over, but particularly black African Americans who wanted to escape the racial persecution experienced by the KKK.
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