The great migration north, 1910-1970 / Laurie Lanzen Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Laurie Lanzen.

Series:

Defining moments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Rural-urban migration--United States--History--20th century.

Rural-urban migration.

History.

African Americans--Migrations.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, [2012]

Summary:

"Provides a comprehensive overview of the movement of millions of African Americans out of the South during the twentieth century, including the political, social, and economic factors that drove their migration. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Narrative overview. Becoming African American

The first great migration

The second great migration

The civil rights movement

The "return" migration

The legacy of the great migration

Biographies. Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940): newspaper publisher, founder, and editor of the Chicago defender

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955): educator and civil rights activist

Tom Bradley (1917-1998): politician and first black mayor of Los Angeles

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963): scholar, historian, and civil rights leader

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940): Jamaican black nationalist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): playwright and author of A raisin in the sun

Langston Hughes (1902-1967): poet, short story writer, and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968): civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCSL)

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000): creator of The migration and other artistic works about the African-American experience

A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979): labor and civil rights leader

Malcolm X (1925-1965): political and religious leader and civil rights activist

Primary sources. The Chicago Defender reports on lynchings in the Jim Crow South

The massacre of East St. Louis

The Chicago race riot of 1919

African Americans praise life in the North

Langston Hughes remembers the Harlem Renaissance

President Roosevelt signs the Fair Employment Act

An eyewitness account of the 1943 race riot in Detroit

President Truman integrates the American military

An African-American migrant builds a new life in the North

The Kerner report analyzes the root causes of racial tensions in America

Reasons for the "return migration" to the South

The great migration and its enduring impact on America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0780811860

9780780811867

OCLC:

747947280

Publisher Number:

99948280932