ISBN:
9781604732160
,
9781604732177
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 297 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Making a Way out of No Way : African American Women and the Second Great Migration
DDC:
305.48/896073
Keywords:
Rural-urban migration History 20th century
;
African American women Biography
;
Oral history
;
Migration, Internal History 20th century
;
African American women Social conditions 20th century
;
African Americans Migrations 20th century
;
History
;
African American women History 20th century
Abstract:
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in lea
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; A NOTE ON STYLE; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Memories of the Southern Childhood; CHAPTER TWO: Guiding Influences and the Younger Years; CHAPTER THREE: The Move North; CHAPTER FOUR: Encountering the City; CHAPTER FIVE: The Work of a Domestic; CHAPTER SIX: Family Aspects; CHAPTER SEVEN: Experiences with Other Types of Employment; CHAPTER EIGHT: Reflections on the Migration and a Life of Work; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781604732160.001.0001
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