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Product Description: One of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year. In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of...
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University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
c2009
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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...
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"During the Great Migration, a large number of Black Americans relocated when faced with segregation and poor economic conditions. While the places they moved to weren't free from racism, they fought for a better future"-- Provided by publisher.
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becker&mayer! books, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
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"This elegant bind-up of three collectible books by Velma Maia Thomas--Lest We Forget, Freedom's Children, and We Shall Not Be Moved--offers an intimate look at black history in America through the lens of a passionate historian committed to preserving these important accounts, along with related memorabilia. Based on materials from the nationally acclaimed Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forget documents the plight of an estimated 100 million Africans,...
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Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
c2012
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"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.
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