Introduction: Kinship with the soil -- Part I. The migration years, 1915-1929. "Booker T." Washington Park and Chicago's racial landscapes ; Black Chicagoans in unexpected places -- Part II. The Depression years, 1930-1940. Playgrounds and protest grounds ; Back to nature in hard times ; Building men and building trees -- Epilogue: A century of migration to "That great iron city."
Summary
In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Brian McCammack travels to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as farms and forests of the rural Midwest, where African Americans retreated to relax and reconnect with southern identities and lifestyles they had left behind
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In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)
