Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780807899434
Series Statement:
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Ser
Content:
In the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Adams offers a powerful reinterpretation of the modern civil rights movement and of the transformations in black urban life within the contexts of migration, work, and urban renewal. While acknowledging the destructive downside of emerging post-industrialism for African Americans in the Jim Crow South, Adams concludes that persistent patterns of economic and racial inequality did not rob black people of their capacity to act in their own interests.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 HEADED FOR LOUISVILLE: African American Migration within the South -- 2 WAY UP NORTH IN LOUISVILLE: Migration and the Meaning of the South -- 3 I NEVER JIM CROWED MYSELF: Navigating the Boundaries of Race in the River City -- 4 NO ROOM FOR POSSUM OR CRAWFISH: African American Migrants' Challenge to Jim Crow -- 5 BEHOLD THE LAND: To Stay and Fight at Home and Struggle for Civil Rights -- 6 UPON THIS ROCK: African American Migration and the Transformation of the Postwar Urban Landscape -- CONCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities -- APPENDIX: Migration, Population, and Employment Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions for the Reprinting of Song Lyrics -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807834220
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807834220
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=605903
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