The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it Changed America

The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it Changed America
ISBN-10
0679733477
ISBN-13
9780679733478
Series
The Promised Land
Category
History
Pages
408
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Nicholas Lemann

Description

A look at the flight of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between 1940 and 1970 presents the migrants' stories about everything from rural sharecropper shacks to urban housing projects. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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