Making a way out of no way : African American women and the second great migration /
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 t...
| Основен автор: | Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=294696 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Making a way out of no way. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781604733501 1604733500 1282485970 9781282485976 1604732164 9781604732160 |