Knock at the Door of Opportunity : Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919

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Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reed, Christopher Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Race relations.
Migration, Internal.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916-1918, effectively doubling Chicago's African American population. Those already residing in Chicago's black neighborhoods.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (456 pages).
ISBN:9780809333349

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