Making a Way out of No Way : African American Women and the Second Great Migration

Lisa Krissoff. Boehm
Bok · Engelsk · 2009 · Electronic books.

Annen tittel	Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Utgitt	Jackson : : University Press of Mississippi, , 2009.
Omfang	1 online resource (318 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; A NOTE ON STYLE; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Memories of the Southern Childhood; CHAPTER TWO: Guiding Influences and the Younger Years; CHAPTER THREE: The Move North; CHAPTER FOUR: Encountering the City; CHAPTER FIVE: The Work of a Domestic; CHAPTER SIX: Family Aspects; CHAPTER SEVEN: Experiences with Other Types of Employment; CHAPTER EIGHT: Reflections on the Migration and a Life of Work; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. - The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in lea
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Dewey	305.48/896073
ISBN	9781604732160