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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...

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Основен автор: Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Серия: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Предмети:
1900-1999
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American women > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
African American women > Biography.
Oral history > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African American women.
African American women > Social conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
Migration, Internal.
Oral history.
Rural-urban migration.
United States > .
Electronic books.
Biography.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Making a way out of no way.
Съдържание:
  • A note on style
  • Biographical sketches
  • Introduction
  • Memories of the Southern childhood
  • Guiding influences and the younger years
  • The move north
  • Encountering the city
  • The work of the domestic
  • Family aspects
  • Experiences with other types of employment
  • Reflections on the migration and a life of work
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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