 In the city, most African Americans competed for low-end jobs with Irish Americans causing tension between the groups.By 1910, thousands of African Americans were moving from the South to Chicago, as a major destination in the Great Migration to industrial cities in the Northeast and Midwest, fleeing lynchings, segregation and disenfranchisement in the Deep South.The revived Ku Klux Klan in the South committed 64 lynchings in 1918 and 83 in 1919.