| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 107 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : a street of dreams / Blyden Jackson -- Toward a socio-historical and demographic portrait of twentieth-century African-Americans / Dernoral Davis -- Rethinking the role of racial violence in the Great Migration / Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck -- The social and economic life of southern blacks during the migration / Carole Marks -- Black labor is the best labor : southern white reactions to the Great Migration / James R. Grossman -- The Great Migration as a lever for social change / William Cohen -- The migration and black protest in Jim Crow Mississippi / Neil R. McMillen |
| Summary |
"What were the causes that motivated [about 5 million] black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African-Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants to northern cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, but also its supply of cheap labor. Fleeing from racial injustice and poverty, southern blacks took their culture north with them and transformed northern urban centers with their churches, social institutions, and ways of life. [In this book] eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the extensive far-reaching results. They consider also the roles assumed by black southerners who elected to remain in the South and the leverage their presence exerted for social change"--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Black persons Migration |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
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Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Black or African American -- history
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Population Dynamics
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Race Relations -- history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African Americans -- Migrations.
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Migration, Internal.
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Population.
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Race relations.
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African Americans -- United States -- History.
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Migration
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Southern States -- Race relations
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Southern States -- Population -- History -- 20th century
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Southern States.
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United States.
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United States -- Migration, Internal.
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United States -- History.
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United States, Southern States -- History -- 1865-1914.
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Schwarze.
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, Alferdteen
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| ISBN |
9781604738216 |
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1604738219 |
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