The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America / Nicholas Lemann
By: Lemann, Nicholas.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1991Edition: First edition.Description: 410 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 0394560043; 9780394560045; 0333575938; 9780333575932; 0333565843; 9780333565841; 0679733477; 9780679733478.Subject(s): African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century | Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Exode rural -- ©tats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si©·cle | Noirs am©♭ricains -- Migrations -- Histoire -- 20e si©·cleDDC classification: 973.0496 | 973 Summary: Provides identity to those who have been participants in Afro-American diaspora, and examines the issues of urban disintegration and rural povertySummary: 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 descriptionItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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
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