Black exodus : the great migration from the American South / edited by Alferdteen Harrison.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harrison, Alferdteen
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1991], ©1991.
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Population > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xviii, 107 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : a street of dreams / Blyden Jackson
  • Toward a socio-historical and demographic portrait of twentieth-century African-Americans / Dernoral Davis
  • Rethinking the role of racial violence in the Great Migration / Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck
  • The social and economic life of southern blacks during the migration / Carole Marks
  • Black labor is the best labor : southern white reactions to the Great Migration / James R. Grossman
  • The Great Migration as a lever for social change / William Cohen
  • The migration and black protest in Jim Crow Mississippi / Neil R. McMillen.