LEADER 03051nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910778919403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-45526-9 010 $a9786613455260 010 $a1-60473-821-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000088719 035 $a(EBL)866910 035 $a(OCoLC)775352334 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11392439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610507 035 $a(PQKB)10369169 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866910 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531945 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL345526 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866910 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000088719 100 $a19900926d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBlack exodus$b[electronic resource] $ethe great migration from the American South /$fedited by Alferdteen Harrison 205 $aPrint-on-demand ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc1991 215 $a1 online resource (128 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87805-609-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aWhat 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 606 $aAfrican Americans$xMigrations$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMigration, Internal$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations 607 $aSouthern States$xPopulation$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMigrations$xHistory 615 0$aMigration, Internal$xHistory 676 $a305.896/073075 701 $aHarrison$b Alferdteen$01506773 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778919403321 996 $aBlack exodus$93737142 997 $aUNINA