Why did Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement gain momentum with black Americans in the 1920s?

A. The influx of southern industrial plants crowded out black farmers who could not get industrial jobs.
B. Black Americans had suffered highly disproportionate losses during World War I and patriotic morale therefore declined.
C. The southern economy did not improve and the region did not experience the creation of a consumer culture.
D. Many blacks moved northward found racial discrimination to be as bad as in the south.


Answer: D

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