basically. and cities around the country, basically in a lot of northern cities, it was because african-americans who had participated in the great migration were competing for and winning jobs and that's the underlying tension that led to these riots that were like eastern europe pogroms. therm deadly and terrible hi violence. and the other reason was that african-american businesses were competing successfully against white mississippi and atlanta in 1906, there was a deadly white race riot against, in which the white business district downtown was smashed up and destroyed and eventually, african-american businesses were banished from