ISBN:
9781604738216
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (99 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/073075
Keywords:
African Americans ; Migrations ; History ; 20th century
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Migration, Internal ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Southern States ; Population ; History ; 20th century
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Southern States ; Race relations
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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USA
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Migration
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Schwarze
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Geschichte 1915-1960
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USA
;
Migration
;
Schwarze
;
USA
;
Migration
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1915-1960
;
USA
;
Migration
;
Schwarze
Abstract:
What were the causes that motivated legions of 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 Black Exodus eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the far-reaching results.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Street of Dreams -- Toward a Socio-Historical and Demographic Portrait of Twentieth-Century African-Americans -- Rethinking the Role of Racial Violence in the Great Migration -- The Social and Economic Life of Southern Blacks During the Migration -- Black Labor Is the Best Labor: Southern White Reactions to the Great Migration -- The Great Migration as a Lever for Social Change -- The Migration and Black Protest in Jim Crow Mississippi -- Contributors -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Street of Dreams; Toward a Socio-Historical and Demographic Portrait of Twentieth-Century African-Americans; Rethinking the Role of Racial Violence in the Great Migration; The Social and Economic Life of Southern Blacks During the Migration; Black Labor Is the Best Labor: Southern White Reactions to the Great Migration; The Great Migration as a Lever for Social Change; The Migration and Black Protest in Jim Crow Mississippi; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W;
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