Making a way out of no way : African American women and the second great migration / Lisa Krissoff Boehm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Social conditions--20th century.

African American women.

African American women--History--20th century.

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

African Americans.

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

Migration, Internal.

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

Rural-urban migration.

African American women--Biography.

Oral history--United States.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Summary:

The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in lea

Contents:

CONTENTS; A NOTE ON STYLE; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Memories of the Southern Childhood; CHAPTER TWO: Guiding Influences and the Younger Years; CHAPTER THREE: The Move North; CHAPTER FOUR: Encountering the City; CHAPTER FIVE: The Work of a Domestic; CHAPTER SIX: Family Aspects; CHAPTER SEVEN: Experiences with Other Types of Employment; CHAPTER EIGHT: Reflections on the Migration and a Life of Work; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48548-2

9786612485480

1-60473-350-0

OCLC:

468779116