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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733501 1604733500 1282485970 9781282485976 1604732164 9781604732160 1282485482 9781282485488 9786612485480 6612485485 9781628469608 1628469609 |