03051nam 2200601 a 450 991077891940332120200520144314.01-283-45526-997866134552601-60473-821-9(CKB)2550000000088719(EBL)866910(OCoLC)775352334(SSID)ssj0000632680(PQKBManifestationID)11392439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632680(PQKBWorkID)10610507(PQKB)10369169(Au-PeEL)EBL866910(CaPaEBR)ebr10531945(CaONFJC)MIL345526(MiAaPQ)EBC866910(EXLCZ)99255000000008871919900926d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlack exodus[electronic resource] the great migration from the American South /edited by Alferdteen HarrisonPrint-on-demand ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic19911 online resource (128 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87805-609-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; WWhat 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, soutAfrican AmericansMigrationsHistory20th centuryMigration, InternalUnited StatesHistory20th centurySouthern StatesRace relationsSouthern StatesPopulationHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansMigrationsHistoryMigration, InternalHistory305.896/073075Harrison Alferdteen1506773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778919403321Black exodus3737142UNINA