TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemann,Nicholas
TI  - The promised land: the great Black migration and how it changed America 
SN  - 0394560043
AV  - E185.6 .L36 1991
U1  - 973.0496 23
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.A. Knopf
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Migrations
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Rural-urban migration
KW  - United States
KW  - Exode rural
KW  - ©œtats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e si©·cle
KW  - Noirs am©♭ricains
N1  - Include index
N2  - Provides identity to those who have been participants in Afro-American diaspora, and examines the issues of urban disintegration and rural poverty; Between the early 1940s and the late 1960s, more than five million African Americans left the fields and farms of the Deep South and headed for the big cities, where they hoped to find the economic comfort and legal rights denied them under Jim Crow. This great migration changed the United States from a country where race was a regional issue and black culture existed mainly in rural isolation into one where race relations affect the texture of life in nearly every city and suburb; it altered politics and popular culture at every level. Nicholas Lemann's narrative concerns the people and lives that were transformed by this migration. First, he tells the stories of several families who left the cotton plantations and small towns, heading north. He then examines the political figures, mostly white, who formulated the official response to this huge demographic shift. The migration was so gradual that it was barely noticed by the establishment until it was nearly over; suddenly politicians realized there was a crisis in the ghettos that they had to try to solve, even though they didn't understand it.--From publisher description
ER  -