Wandering in strange lands : a daughter of the Great Migration reclaims her roots / Morgan Jerkins.

An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the Nor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jerkins, Morgan (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century. Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans > History > 1877-1964. Jerkins, Morgan > Family. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies. HISTORY / African American. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights. African Americans. African Americans > Migrations. Families. Rural-urban migration. United States. African Americans > Social conditions. 1877-1999 Biographies. History.
Genre:	Biographies. History.
Physical Description:	289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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