The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 / / Bernadette Pruitt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453646603321
• Autore: Pruitt Bernadette
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station : , : Texas A&M University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-62349-003-0; 1-4619-4946-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (482 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; ; number 21
• Disciplina: 305.896
• Soggetti: African Americans - Texas - Houston - Migrations - History - 20th century; African Americans - Texas - Houston - Social conditions - 20th century; Community development - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century; Migration, Internal - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century; Rural-urban migration - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century; Electronic books.; Houston (Tex.) Race relations History 20th century; Houston (Tex.) Social conditions 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.