The Resource The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America, Nicholas Lemann
The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America, Nicholas Lemann
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- Summary
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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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 410 pages
- Contents
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- Clarksdale
- Chicago
- Washington
- Chicago
- Clarksdale
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780333565841
- Label
- The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America
- Title
- The promised land
- Title remainder
- the great Black migration and how it changed America
- Statement of responsibility
- Nicholas Lemann
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lemann, Nicholas
- Dewey number
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- 973
- 973.0496
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.6
- LC item number
- .L36 1991
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- E185.6.L36
- NAL item number
- 1991
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
- African Americans
- Rural-urban migration
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America, Nicholas Lemann
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-401) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Clarksdale -- Chicago -- Washington -- Chicago -- Clarksdale -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 410 pages
- Isbn
- 9780333565841
- Isbn Type
- (MACMILLAN)
- Lccn
- 90052951
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm22240548
- (Sirsi) o22240548
- (OCoLC)22240548
- Label
- The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America, Nicholas Lemann
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-401) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Clarksdale -- Chicago -- Washington -- Chicago -- Clarksdale -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 410 pages
- Isbn
- 9780333565841
- Isbn Type
- (MACMILLAN)
- Lccn
- 90052951
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm22240548
- (Sirsi) o22240548
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