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PBS NewsHour. Author examines the black migration from the Jim Crow south (Sept. 23, 2010) / produecd by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Rural-urban migration--United States--History--20th century.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (9 min.)
- Other Title:
- Author examines generations-long black 'Defection from the Jim Crow South'
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- In her new book 'The Warmth of Other Suns,' Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the author.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 9, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 904557958
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