Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions. Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless and poor, Gregory shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change. Combining personal stories with cultural, political, and demographic analysis, he argues that the migrants helped create both the modern civil rights movement and modern conservatism. They spurred changes in American religion, notably modern evangelical Protestantism, and in popular culture, including the development of blues, jazz, and country music. In a sweeping account that pioneers new understandings of the impact of mass migrations, Gregory recasts the history of twentieth-century America. He demonstrates that the southern diaspora was crucial to transformations in the relationship between American regions, in the politics of race and class, and in the roles of religion, the media, and culture.
Through vivid oral histories, Chad Berry explores the conflict between migrants' economic success and their "spiritual exile" in the North.
Twenty million southerners moved north and west between 1900 and the 1970s.
In Black Exodus eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the far-reaching results.
Presents an epic history that covers the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, chronicling the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and ...
Grossman’s rich, detailed analysis of black migration to Chicago during World War I and its aftermath brilliantly captures the cultural meaning of the movement.
... in 1947–48 at the Barnett-Arden Gallery in Washington, D.C. She married Mexican muralist Francisco Mora in 1947 (after divorcing African American artist Charles White, whom she met in Chicago) and 102 beyond the migrant mother.
2, B-127, NAACP Papers, LC; George C. Wright, History of Blacks in Kentucky, 165. William Pickens to B. S. Etherly, Secretary, Louisville NAACP, October 20, 1937, NAACP Branch Files, Louisville, pt. 1, G-76, NAACP Papers, LC.
In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of ...
Dozier, Richard K. “Tuskegee: Booker T. Washington's Contribution to the Training ofBlack Architects.” Ph.D. diss., University ofMichigan, 1990. Dzidzienyo, Anani, and Suzanne Oboler, eds. Neither Enemies nor Friends: 24.0 Bibliography.
Examining the experiences of Africans setting up businesses back home, the main focus of this book is to establish the economic, social and psychological reasons for such ‘home direct investment’.