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Author Pruitt, Bernadette, 1965-

Title The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 / Bernadette Pruitt
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; number 21
Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 21.
Contents Pulling up the stakes : the great migration to Houston, 1900-1930 -- Building a city : migrant settlements in Houston, 1900-1941 -- Beautiful people : agency in Houston, 1900-1941 -- "That was their protection and safeguard" : Houston's "new Negro," 1917-1941 -- In "the Garden of Eden" : the Houston Renaissance, 1900-1941 -- The Black economy at work : wage earners, professionals, economic crisis, and the origins of the second great migration, 1900-1941 -- Conclusion : new beginnings, new institutions, new migrations
Summary The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demographics but also Black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, the author portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of Black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950, nearly fifty thousand Black people left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them in. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit Blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, the author details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
Rural-urban migration -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
Migration, Internal -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Community development -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Migrations
African Americans -- Social conditions
Community development
Migration, Internal
Race relations
Rural-urban migration
Social conditions
SUBJECT Houston (Tex.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Texas -- Houston
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781623490034
1623490030
9781461949466
1461949467