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The Other Great Migration : The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013

Online-Ressource (482 p)

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Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Pulling Up the Stakes: The Great Migration to Houston, 1900-1930; Chapter Two. Building a City: Migrant Settlements in Houston, 1900-1941; Chapter Three. Beautiful People: Agency in Houston, 1900-1941; Chapter Four. "That Was Their Protection and Safeguard": Houston's "New Negro," 1917-1941; Chapter Five. In "The Garden of Eden": The Houston Renaissance, 1900-1941; Chapter Six. 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 MigrationsNotes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

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Print version: The Other Great Migration : The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941

978-1-60344-948-9

978-1-60344-948-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

978-1-62349-003-4 ( : 41.76 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

F394 .H89 N48 2013

305.896 ; 305.89607307     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Houston (Tex.) - Race relations - History - 20th century

Houston (Tex.) - Race relations - History - 20th century ; Electronic books

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, Bernadette Pruitt 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 blacks 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 push