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What is significant about Richard Russell?

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Long‑serving U.S. senator from Georgia who built major Senate seniority and committee power, steered federal military and appropriations money to the state, and was a leading conservative defender of states’ rights and segregation.

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What was the Great Migration?

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The mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Western cities (roughly 1910–1970) seeking industrial jobs and escape from Jim Crow.

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What were some negative consequences of economic progress?

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Environmental damage, displacement of tenant farmers/sharecroppers, widening social and regional inequalities, labor unrest, and intensified racial and class tensions.