In the fifty years before the Great Migration thousands of African Americans moved from the southern countryside to nearby cities and towns. In in an event historian Bernadette Pruitt calls the Other Great Migration, rapidly increasing black populations struggled to claim space in New South cities built by industry and governed by segregation. While this process occurred across the urban South, the logical destination for people living in southeast Mississippi was a small but growing town called Hattiesburg. As sharecroppers from the countryside turned their backs on farm labor, they embarked upon a four-step process to a better life. Through migration, employment, enterprise, and agency, black migrants resisted the effects of white dominan...
By 1970 African Americans constituted approximately 35 percent of New Haven’s population – nearly te...
During the period between 1930 and 1970 more than 17,000 migrants were drawn to Louisville, challeng...
Significant numbers of studies have elevated the African American experience in Central Appalachia, ...
Migration of black peasants from the farms to the cities was no new phenomenon in the early twentiet...
This thesis is about African Americans in Memphis working within the constraints of Jim Crow in orde...
This article based on primary research including collections from the Alan Lomax Collection from the...
This study examines the experiences of African Americans who chose to remain in and return to the Am...
This dissertation provides new insights on the role of business in the African American freedom stru...
From Appomattox to World War I, Blacks continued their quest for a secure position in the American s...
This study examines movement of blacks from the rural South to the urban North with particular empha...
This research aims to analyze Reverse Migration in Southern cities with the contextual focus of the ...
“Way Up North in Louisville: African-American Migration in Louisville, Kentucky, 1930–1970,” examine...
Chapter in The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Prese...
Moving west beyond homes on the Atlantic seaboard resembled a trickle of water during the early hist...
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urba...
By 1970 African Americans constituted approximately 35 percent of New Haven’s population – nearly te...
During the period between 1930 and 1970 more than 17,000 migrants were drawn to Louisville, challeng...
Significant numbers of studies have elevated the African American experience in Central Appalachia, ...
Migration of black peasants from the farms to the cities was no new phenomenon in the early twentiet...
This thesis is about African Americans in Memphis working within the constraints of Jim Crow in orde...
This article based on primary research including collections from the Alan Lomax Collection from the...
This study examines the experiences of African Americans who chose to remain in and return to the Am...
This dissertation provides new insights on the role of business in the African American freedom stru...
From Appomattox to World War I, Blacks continued their quest for a secure position in the American s...
This study examines movement of blacks from the rural South to the urban North with particular empha...
This research aims to analyze Reverse Migration in Southern cities with the contextual focus of the ...
“Way Up North in Louisville: African-American Migration in Louisville, Kentucky, 1930–1970,” examine...
Chapter in The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Prese...
Moving west beyond homes on the Atlantic seaboard resembled a trickle of water during the early hist...
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urba...
By 1970 African Americans constituted approximately 35 percent of New Haven’s population – nearly te...
During the period between 1930 and 1970 more than 17,000 migrants were drawn to Louisville, challeng...
Significant numbers of studies have elevated the African American experience in Central Appalachia, ...