Black exodus [electronic resource] : the great migration from the American South / edited by Alferdteen Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Alferdteen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Migration, Internal.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Southern States--Population--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

Print-on-demand ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What 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

Contents:

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; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-45526-9

9786613455260

1-60473-821-9

OCLC:

775352334