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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778919403321

Titolo

Black exodus [[electronic resource] ] : the great migration from the American South / / edited by Alferdteen Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c1991

ISBN

1-283-45526-9

9786613455260

1-60473-821-9

Edizione

[Print-on-demand ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisonAlferdteen

Disciplina

305.896/073075

Soggetti

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century

Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th century

Southern States Race relations

Southern States Population History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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, sout